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The world can’t afford to keep wasting soil

Publication: Al Jazeera English;

Author: Stan Cox

Stan Cox authored this opionion piece on Aljazeera.com.

Late last year, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released a hair-raising report on the state of the world’s soil and water resources. The bottomline: 25 per cent of the world’s food-producing soils are highly degraded or are rapidly being degraded. Add to that other soils which they say are degrading “moderately”, and the area under threat amounts to one-third of the Earth’s endowment of cropland …

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