FAO discussions include a proposed UN Decade on Soil Health for 2031–40. Durable progress requires locally meaningful indicators, long-term finance and policies that make stewardship economically possible.
Tag: Food security
Salt is quietly taking productive soil out of circulation
Soil salinisation grows through irrigation, poor drainage, groundwater rise and sea-level intrusion. Recovery requires measurement, water management and farm economics, not a single salt-tolerant seed.
The next climate warning will not arrive as one disaster. It will arrive as many small failures at once
Climate change is often imagined as a single dramatic event: a flood, a wildfire, a storm surge. The more dangerous reality is quieter. Climate risk increa