Agricultural soil is an important resource for communities all over the world, not only because it provides humans with the majority of their food but because it also plays a major role in balancing the environment.
Soil researchers have said investing in soil could help the world tap into an untold resource against environmental challenges brought on by unpredictable climatic conditions.
“The degradation of soil resources has been occurring since the advent of agriculture, some 10,000 years ago,” said the Assoc Head of Colorado State University’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Prof. Francesca Cotrufo, and PhD student Sam Leuthold from Cotrufo’s Soil Innovation Laboratory….