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How roots help us fight against hard soils

Soil is a vital commodity for food security - more than 95% of global food production depends on soil. Modern intensive farming practices help us to meet the growing demand for food today. On the downside, they often compromise the health of agricultural soils. Increasingly heavy... click to read more

Bipin K. Pandey | BBSRC Discovery Fellow at Future Food Beacon and School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Malcolm J. Bennett | Professor at Future Food Beacon and School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, UK

roots

soil

compaction

ethylene

Reading time 3 min

published on Oct 8, 2021

How many factors of global change affect soils

We often hear about how the warming climate is affecting the natural world around us. But the human-made global change is a tremendously more complicated problem than "just" a changing climate. It captures pollution, invasive species, biodiversity loss, excessive use of species or land, all... click to read more

Matthias Rillig | Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

climate change

biodiversity

global change

soil

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Sep 7, 2020