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July 2024

Soil security

AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_f42c0d0e

 Soil security

FAO/Seyllou Diallo

The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

In water-scarce dry areas, safeguarding soil resources is vital as it enhances agricultural productivity, water retention and nutrient availability. It also prevents desertification and sand storms and reduces GHG emissions as well as biodiversity loss. Improving soil security helps farmers to optimize resource use and mitigate impacts of climate change.

March 2022

March 8 is International Women's Day. Equal access to land has always been the cornerstone of inclusive sustainable development. We...

AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_f29f3106

February 2022

Rangeland monitoring is an important tool as it helps understand how conditions of rangelands are changing in response to the...

AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_218f84e4

January 2022

Renewable energy, as experts assert, is a durable solution for energy security which is a vital necessity for humanity and...

AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_25719

December 2021

Beer is one of the ancient beverage known today the first mentions of which is ten thousand years old. After...

AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_864

November 2021

Conservation agriculture is considered as an environmentally friendly production system. It stops the degradation of the soil which is the...

AGROVOC URI: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_264f7edd

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