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Can soil save us?

A conversation with foremost soil scientist and 2020 World Food Prize winner Dr. Rattan Lal on how to harness the power of soil.

 
Planting gnetum, a tropical evergreen species, in the soils of Cameroon. Ollivier Girard, CIFOR

A quick checkup on the “skin of the Earth”

Q&A with renowned soil scientist Leigh Winowiecki on what actions and information are needed to protect soil health.

 

Best of Landscape News 2020: Food and Livelihoods

Our pick of this year’s top stories

 
Con el 5 % de toda la biodiversidad de la Tierra, el Cerrado es uno de los ecosistemas tropicales más ricos y cubre el 21 % del Brasil. Carlos Ebert, Flickr

The Brazilian Cerrado: the upside-down forest on the frontlines of agriculture

Welcome to the Brazilian Cerrado, the wettest savanna on Earth that holds around 5% of the world's biodiversity.

 
A smallholder's garden soil in Burkina Faso. Ollivier Girard, CIFOR

A library for understanding the soils of the world

New soil 'library' uses spectroscopy technology to address the global food supply through advanced soil analysis.

 

Into the great unknown of terrestrial dark matter: fungi

We know little about some 94 percent of fungi species, which could hold answers for everything from needed medecines to better carbon sequestration.

 
Women and their families present their traditional recipes at a community cook-off in Chiapas state, Mexico. Kevin Ferrara, DAI

In Mexico, Indigenous recipes are improving backyard farming

A new cookbook of Indigenous recipes in Mexico's poorest state reignites pride in tradition, native seeds and sense of place.

 
South Dakota Black Hills

Fast facts: Drylands and rangelands

A quick rundown on our planet’s ecosystems

 
Rice paddy fields

Fast facts: Agriculture

A quick rundown on our planet’s ecosystems

 
A coastal Manuka forest in New Zealand, where Māori knowledge is being used to battle plant diseases.

7 Indigenous technologies changing landscapes

From seed saving to non-linear conceptions of time, ancient Indigenous knowledge continues to transform landscapes and livelihoods today.

 
Bamboo in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil

In China, the largest bamboo structure of its kind proclaims the plant’s future

On the unexpected uses of the fast-growing grass

 

What makes a water source ‘good’ for agriculture?

Institutions, salts and uses are all factors

 

Forests at the root of the water solution

For World Water Day, a look at nature-based solutions to achieving water for all

 

Ancient Amazon farming methods offer lessons for rainforest conservation, scientists say

Safeguarding modern forests

 

Is well-being possible without biodiversity?

Most of us would agree that human well-being depends to a large extent on healthy ecosystems and the services they provide. For example, fertile soil enables us to grow food crops, and nutrient cycling in watersheds is needed for water purification to ensure we have clean water to drink. But what role does biodiversity play […]

 

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