Highlight: Extensive fertilizer use boosts yields but risks environmental harm and nutrient imbalance. Inefficient fertilizer use threatens food security and leads to soil degradation...
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Global Food and Nutrition Security
The recent global fertiliser crisis has unveiled the precarious state of our agri-food systems, heavily reliant on conventional fertiliser inputs. This crisis exposes vulnerabilities stemming...
Highlights: The Draft Nairobi Declaration on Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit outlines commitments to enhance agricultural productivity, soil health, and sustainability across Africa. Key...
One of the great challenges facing the agricultural sector worldwide is the availability of fertile land for the establishment of crops for human and animal feed. Grass pastures used for animal feed...
FAO online resource dedicated to the World Soil Day(s).
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Declining water quantity and quality are leading to increasing soil salinity and threatening sustainability of salt-affected irrigated drylands
Experiments, simulation, and multi-criteria trade-off...
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Food systems interact with, and affect, the environment in a great many ways beyond their greenhouse gas emissions. In order to feed humans, the global food...
Severe land degradation in Africa negatively impacts nearly half of all productive land, affecting well over 650 million people. Practices resulting in land...
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This policy study is authored by the Advisory Group (AG) on R&I for Africa-Europe cooperation commissioned by the European Commission´s Directorates-General for Research and Innovation and for International Partnerships.
The document...
Food starts with soils, and as the target date to accomplish the SDGs grows closer, it is more urgent than ever to reverse soil degradation and tackle its effects on agrifood...