World Soil Day is an annual celebration on 5 December which aims to highlight the importance of soil to societies across the world and the need to use it sustainably.
Soil’s most widely recognised function is supporting plant growth, whether agricultural crops, trees or native habitats but it is increasingly being recognised for other environmental benefits such as climate regulation (greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage), water flow regulation (flood control) and as the largest terrestrial reservoir of biodiversity.
As the world’s population continues to grow we face a huge challenge in managing our soils sustainably to produce more food from less land. Understanding soils and how they affect crops is essential for the sustainable intensification of agriculture across the world.
Soil’s most widely recognised function is supporting plant growth, whether agricultural crops, trees or native habitats but it is increasingly being recognised for other environmental benefits such as climate regulation (greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage), water flow regulation (flood control) and as the largest terrestrial reservoir of biodiversity.
As the world’s population continues to grow we face a huge challenge in managing our soils sustainably to produce more food from less land. Understanding soils and how they affect crops is essential for the sustainable intensification of agriculture across the world.
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