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    Soil: the great connector of our lives now and beyond COVID-19

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    Date
    2020-11-05
    Author
    Poch, R.M.
    dos Anjos, L.H.C.
    Attia, F.
    Balks, M.
    Benavides-Mendoza, A.
    Bolanos-Benavides, M.M.
    Calzolari, C.
    Chabala, L.M.
    de Ruiter, P.C.
    Francke-Campana, S.
    Prechac, F.G.
    Graber, E.R.
    Halavatau, S.
    Hassan, K.M.
    Hien, E.
    Jin, K.
    Khan, M.
    Konvushkova, M.
    Lobb, D.A.
    Moshia, M.E.
    Murase, J.
    Nziguheba, G.
    Patra, A.K.
    Pierzynski, G.
    Eugenio, N.R.
    Rojas, R.V.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Review Status
    Peer Review
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    Abstract/Description
    Humanity depends on the existence of healthy soils, both for the production of food and for ensuring a healthy, biodiverse environment, among other functions. COVID-19 is threatening food availability in many places of the world due to the disruption of food chains, lack of workforce, closed borders and national lockdowns. As a consequence, more emphasis is being placed on local food production, which may lead to more intensive cultivation of vulnerable areas and to soil degradation. In order to increase the resilience of populations facing this pandemic and future global crises, transitioning to a paradigm that relies more heavily on local food production on soils that are carefully tended and protected through sustainable management is necessary. To reach this goal, the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recommends five active strategies: improved access to land, sound land use planning, sustainable soil management, enhanced research, and investments in education and extension. The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-541-2020
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7036
    IITA Authors ORCID
    Generose Nziguhebahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4227-2242
    Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
    https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-541-2020
    Research Themes
    Natural Resource Management
    IITA Subjects
    Agronomy; Farming Systems; Food Security; Natural Resource Management; Plant Breeding; Plant Production; Research Method; Soil Fertility; Soil Health
    Agrovoc Terms
    Food Production; Soil; Environment; Pandemics; Food Security; Pandemics; Food Supply
    Regions
    ACP; Africa; Africa South of Sahara
    Hubs
    Central Africa Hub
    Journals
    Soil
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