Soils

ISSUES

Soil degradation

Soil provides living things with food, fibres and fuel. It supports wildlife and rural and urban activities. From the end of the 1940s to the beginning of the 1990s, over 90% of the degradation of productive land was due to overgrazing, deforestation and inappropriate agricultural practices. These changes in the soil affect over 2 billion people, most of the 852 million people suffering from hunger in particular.
Soil can therefore not be ignored in ecosystem mechanisms.

NEWS

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LIECHTENSTEIN - LUXEMBOURG - Les exploitants qui ont des installations à proximité d'une zone polluée peuvent être présumés...

CAMBODIA - Les deux tiers des pesticides employés dans 8 pays d’Asie contiennent des substances classées comme hautement toxiques,...

ITALY - ROME - Un pan de colline se détache et glisse sur des centaines de mètres dans un torrent de boue: en Italie, ce...

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DEBATES

An ecosystem approach to drylands : building support for new development policies

The World Resources Institute

Despite concerted efforts, dryland issues have failed to capture sufficient global attention to propel rapid progress in curbing...

Deserts on our doorstep

Empty reservoirs, dried-up rivers and eroded soils that...

Natural systems under Stress

Losing soilThe thin layer of topsoil that covers the...

FOCUS

-The water circle

The water cycle, along with the carbon cycle, is an essential requirement for every form of life. Water is present within the cells of our bodies, and even at this level it is in perpetual motion. It is water that gives the cell its volume, allows it to breathe, and to...

VIDEOS

08/02/2010	Sortie prévue le 10 février, voici le trailer d'un film qui enquête sur...	08/01/2010	DIRT! The Movie, tells the amazing and little known story of the...
23/12/2009	Soumana Doumbia, geographer, tells us about the difficulties that farmers...	23/12/2009	Christopher Burn, a canadian geographer, tells us that global warming is...

GREEN TIPS

Un nouveau bitume végétal, moins polluant

Le Végécol est le premier composant végétal pouvant se substituer au bitume ne contenant aucun dérivé...

INDICATORS

Arable land
Desertification risks
Degraded soils
Ecological footprint

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