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publié dans Ressources le 29 août 2013

Rural 21: Soil – A resource under threat

Rural 21

Sols et gestion de la fertilité

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Over the last few years, the increased rush on farmland has demonstrated just how precious and scarce soil is. However, seldom are public awareness and the need for action so far apart as is the case with “soil”. The authors of this edition of Rural 21 first of all demonstrate the wide range of ecosystem services that the essential and finite resource of soil performs and show the dramatic effects that poor governance of transformation of soils has – in all areas of human life. The second part then takes up sustainable land management practice. Finally in the third part we look at the political level. There con tinues to be a lack of an international and legally binding policy framework for the regulation of soil protection. Why are the inter- national community as well as individual countries so reluctant to reach such an agreement, as called for at the Rio+20 Conference last year?

Focus

  • Governing the transformation of soils must urgently be improved
  • Awareness, research, action: the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) initiative –A ‘nexus’ approach to soil and land management
  • What can conservation agriculture achieve?
  • Promoting best practices in sustainable land management
  • Bio-reclamation – Converting degraded lateritic soils into productive land
  • Rangelands –sound management strategies for a vulnerable resource
  • New instruments for better land governance
  • Soil conservation in the European Union
  • UNCCD – the accord for global land stewardship
  • Let’s put soils on the global sustainable development agenda

Opinion

  • Payments for soil carbon seques tration – the right path to take?
  • Payments for soil carbon sequestration – the right path to take?

Scientific World

  • Why the Green Revolution failed in sub-Saharan Africa
  • Integrated Soil Fertility Management – a concept that could boost soil productivity

International Platform

  • Experience with the System of Rice Intensification in Timor Leste
  • Revival for Zimbabwe’s meat market
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