Soils of war: The toxic legacy for Ukraine’s breadbasket
ROD NICKEL, of Reuters, reports on the damage being done to previously fertile farmland in Ukraine…
Dying lands: Farmers fight to save the “skin of the Earth”
ROD NICKEL, AYENAT MERSIE, DAVID STANWAY and XIAOYU YIN, of Reuters, report on how human efforts to preserve soil are proving no match for increasingly extreme weather, which is damaging the living system and depleting its ability to produce food…
FOOD SECURITY: DIGGING UP THE DIRT – COULD SOIL CONTAIN THE ANSWER TO FOOD SHORTAGES?
THIN LEI WIN, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at the importance of global soil health to the future of our food…
Tiny AI devices aim to enrich farmers and their soil
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation A piece of paper no bigger than a business card could enrich struggling coffee farmers and their soil, a growing challenge as temperatures rise and prices fluctuate. Enveritas, a US non-profit, signed an agreement with International Business Machines Corp on Thursday to pilot the AgroPad, which analyses soil samples remotely and […]
Stop soil erosion now or face starvation soon, scientists warn
RomeThomson Reuters Foundation The world’s food production is in jeopardy because the fertile layer of soil that people depend on to plant crops is being eroded by human activities, scientists said on Wednesday. Climate change is likely to make it worse even as demand from a grown population is soaring, they said. A Kenyan Maasai […]
More than a billion live on degraded land, at risk of hunger, says UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said this week. People’s use of the earth’s natural reserves has doubled in the last 30 years. Now a third of […]