Desertification is a form of land degradation by which fertile land loses much of its biological — and economic — productivity, and becomes desert. Today, up to 40% of the world's land is ...

Fertile soil is lost Helle Jeppesen / rr 04/21/2015 April 21, 2015. Massive amounts of fertile agricultural land are lost every year. Yet we depend on such topsoil as the basis for feeding the world.

One third of the cropland in the upper Midwest has entirely lost its fertile topsoil, according to a new study. Other scientists doubt that figure, but agree that soil loss is a big problem.

At the present time almost 16% of the land area of cultivated organic soil in Québec's Montérégie region is already considered thin and highly degraded due to heavy decomposition.

U.S. cities have been built on the most fertile soil in the country, lessening the contributions of these lands to the food web and human agriculture, according to a NASA study.

Advancing food security and environmental sustainability in farming systems requires an integrated soil fertility management approach that maximizes crop production while minimizing the mining of soil ...

A farm south of New Holland on Ranck Road was up for rezoning — it is in the urban growth area — at the most recent meeting of the East Earl Township supervisors. About 30 people, mostly local ...

Healthy land also provides food security and a sustainable agricultural system, says the study. But with so much fertile, productive land degraded each year, ongoing desertification is instead ...

Highly fertile an A large proportion of the vegetables consumed in Québec are grown in the Montérégie region in what are known as organic soils. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT ...