The forgotten solution to climate change
Dr. José Rubio and colleagues argue in a position paper that soil regulates climate, so degradation releases carbon and worsens drought, making sustainable soil management essential to climate action.
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Soil Security
Features based on peer-reviewed papers published in Soil Security.
Conservation Agriculture: the foundation of Sustainable Soil Management
Dr. Rolf Derpsch and colleagues argue that ploughing and bare soil drive declining soil productivity, and that minimal disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop diversity can reverse it.
Grazing summer cover crops are a sustainable solution for arid agriculture
Dr. Partson Mubvumba's team found that grazing a summer cover crop mix in semi-arid Texas did not consistently change measured soil properties compared with leaving the cover crops ungrazed.