Embark on a journey into the heart of our planet's lifelines with this enlightening video, 'Soil and water: a source of life.' The narrative unfolds the symbiotic relationship between soil and water, highlighting their crucial role in sustaining life on Earth. Healthy soil, acting as a natural water reservoir, not only influences global water quality and availability but also plays a pivotal role in ensuring food security and nutrition. Witness how soil acts as a powerful carbon sink, mitigating climate change, and discover its role as a habitat for 59% of Earth's species.

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Soil may not look like much but without it we wouldn't be able to produce our food! But soil erosion is threatening our food security. Every 5 seconds the equivalent of one soccer pitch is eroded! Once we lose this soil we won't see it again in our lifetime. If we don't act now, over 90% of the Earth's soils could become degraded by 2050.

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Soils are a limited natural resource, but their role in food security is crucial. In light of climate change, soil degradation and erosion, farmers struggle to protect soil health.

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This animated film tells the reality of soil resources around the world, covering the issues of degradation, urbanization, land grabbing and overexploitation; the film offers options to make the way we manage our soils more sustainable.

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The world’s soils are rapidly deteriorating due to soil erosion, nutrient depletion, loss of soil organic carbon, soil sealing and other threats, but this trend can be reversed provided countries take the lead in promoting sustainable management practices and the use of appropriate technologies, according to the 'Status of the World’s Soil Resources'report.

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