“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 ...

Healthy soils do far more than simply support infrastructure: they sustain resilient and green cities. support the health of ...

LONDON (AlertNet) - Land degradation and pressure on the world's soil resources are threatening global food security, the head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday at ...

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The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has introduced a new technology of restoring degraded soils in Sub Saharan Africa back to productive soils. The technology creates ...

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 ...

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, ...

In a breakthrough that could reshape global agriculture, Chinese scientists have reported a hardier form of rice designed for ...

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