Food and clean water start with soil biodiversity

Biodiversity and Health - World Health Organization (WHO)

They provide clean air, fresh water, medicines and food security. They also limit disease and stabilize the climate. But biodiversity loss ...

testing the potential of citizen science and DNA to explore alpine soil ...

Soil biodiversity is critical to ecosystem functioning, but our understanding of the richness and distribution of soil organisms lags far behind that of ...

Water Resources: Agricultural and Environmental Issues | BioScience

The increasing demands placed on the global water supply threaten biodiversity and the supply of water for food production and other vital human needs.

Crops and Ecology | Food System Primer

Agriculture is built upon fertile soil, a favorable climate, ample freshwater, a diversity of plant and animal species, and the skills and labor of farmers and ...

The role of soil ecosystem services in the circular bioeconomy

It preserves healthy ecosystems, ensuring balanced food, illness prevention, clean water, air, and energy. Soil's state determines its ecosystem's function (21) ...

Why soil is important to life on Earth – and helps fight climate change

Soil is vital for both people and planet. It is a key source of food, water ... Soil's impact on biodiversity and food security. Soil is one of ...

Soil Biodiversity and Soil Health - Farm Advisory Service

Plant roots can only access nutrients that are dissolved and present in the soil water ... A more diverse food supply translates into increased soil biodiversity ...

Soil degradation: the problems and how to fix them

A third of the world's soil is moderately to highly degraded, threatening global food supplies, increasing carbon emissions and ...

Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss - UNEP

Dietary change is necessary to enable land to be returned to nature, and to allow widespread adoption of nature-friendly farming without ...

CDFA Soil Biodiversity Report: A Path to Protecting Our Living Soils

These living networks help to build soil structure, store water, manage pest populations and numerous other processes that ultimately support ...

Regenerative agriculture | Nestlé Global

Regenerative agriculture is a holistic approach to farming that actively supports the three key agricultural resources – biodiversity, water and soil.

Soil Biodiversity as a Key Sponsor of Regenerative Agriculture

Soil biodiversity is critical for human health, plant growth and support, water and climate regulation, and erosion and disease control so as considered to be a ...

Regard and protect ground‐nesting pollinators as part of soil ...

While the Convention on Biological Diversity employs a habitat-oriented definition of soil biodiversity including all kinds of species ...

Why soil biodiversity is so important - WUR eDepot

making the water both clean and safe. ... At the same time, their burrowing creates airways and passages through which water can enter the soil rather than run ...

Farm to Ned Alliance: Biodiversity 101

Biodiversity is important because it supports essential services like food, clean water ... soil, we slowly start ... water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These ...

Water and food security | International Decade for Action 'Water for ...

The UN General Assembly declared access to clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right on 28 July 2010. But the right to water in the context of the ...

For food security we need soil security

The world will struggle to meet environmental targets around climate change, biodiversity and food production unless we understand our soil. The ...

Soil Biodiversity as a Key Sponsor of Regenerative Agriculture

Increasing knowledge and literacy around soil biodiversity is essential to discover and implement biological solutions for the discouraging challenges ...

How to Sustainably Feed 10 Billion People by 2050, in 21 Charts

Farmers can boost crop yields in degraded soils—particularly drylands and areas with low carbon—by improving soil and water management practices ...

Soil bacteria can clean your drinking water - ScienceNordic

Aamand spotted a great opportunity for solving the problem when one of his students, Anitta M. J. Christensen, discovered that the soil contains ...