Every year, on September 5, FAO celebrates the World Soil Day. This year’s campaign "Stop soil erosion, Save our future" is envisaged to raise awareness on the importance of sustaining healthy ...
“Soil is the foundation of agriculture and the world’s farmers depend on soil to produce about 95% of the food we eat”, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said. “Yet, our soils are at risk,” he stressed ...
The world’s soils are getting degraded due to erosion, compaction, soil sealing, salinization, soil organic matter and nutrient depletion, acidification, pollution and other processes caused by ...
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, ...
ISLAMABAD: As ‘World Soil Day’ was observed on Friday, a new assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has found that Pakistan’s soils generally suffer from low ...
Monrovia — The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with stakeholders in the Liberia's agriculture sector have had a day-long dialogue on the need to strengthen soil analysis and ...
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