World’s soils are under threat

The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils has completed the first State of the World’s Soil Resources Report. Globally soil erosion was identified as the gravest threat, leading to deteriorating water quality in developed regions and to lowering of crop yields in many developing regions. We nee...

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Autores: Montanarella, Luca, Pennock, Daniel Jon, McKenzie, Neil, Badraoui, Mohamed, Chude, Victor, Baptista, Isaurinda, Mamo, Tekalign, Yemefack, Martin, Aulakh, Mikha Singh, Yagi, Kazuyuki, Hong, Suk Young, Vijarnsorn, Pisoot, Zhang, Gan-Lin, Arrouays, Dominique, Black, Helaina, Krasilnikov, Pavel, Sobocká, Jaroslava, Alegre, Julio, Henriquez, Carlos Roberto, Mendonça Santos, Maria de Lourdes, Taboada, Miguel Angel, Espinosa-Victoria, David, AlShankiti, Abdullah, AlaviPanah, Sayed Kazem, Mustafa Elsheikh, Elsiddig Ahmed El, Hempel, Jon, Arbestain, Marta Camps, Nachtergaele, Freddy, Vargas, Ronald
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/97304
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/97304
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:soil resources
soil threat
soil degradation
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.1
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Sumario:The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils has completed the first State of the World’s Soil Resources Report. Globally soil erosion was identified as the gravest threat, leading to deteriorating water quality in developed regions and to lowering of crop yields in many developing regions. We need to increase nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use in infertile tropical and semi-tropical soils - the regions where the most food insecurity among us are found - while reducing global use of these products overall. Stores of soil organic carbon are critical in the global carbon balance, and national governments must set specific targets to stabilize or ideally increase soil organic carbon stores. Finally the quality of soil information available for policy formulation must be improved - the regional assessments in the State of the World’s Soil Resources Report frequently base their evaluations on studies from the 1990s based on observations made in the 1980s or earlier.

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