Ahealthy life is not possible without healthy soils, saidthe United Nations' Ban Ki-moon on launching the International Year of Soil 2015- Its aim is to shine a spotlight on soil. And let's be honest, soil science needs the attention.Global soils are used, abused and neglected. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that around a third of all soils are degraded: badly eroded, affected by salt, overworked, built on and forgotten. This is not good when we will need to increase food production to feed an ever growing population. So how can we manage our soils to cope with this.
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