Soil atlas: Facts and figures about earth, land and fields. | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
décembre 2015
Resource Language: 
ISBN / Resource ID: 
UNCCD:491
Pages: 
68

Without healthy soils, it is not possible to produce healthy food. But soils do not just produce food: they
do many other things too. They filter rainwater and turn it into clean drinking water. They regulate the climate, for after the oceans, the soil is the world’s largest carbon sink: it stores more carbon than all the world’s forests put together. And soils are teeming with life! A handful of earth contains more organisms than the planet’s entire human population. Two-thirds of all species live hidden below the surface.2015 is the International Year of Soils. This Soil Atlas shows what can succeed and why the soil should concern us all.Global demand for food, fodder and biofuels is on the rise. So too are land prices. In many regions, the struggle for secure land rights is a struggle for survival for individuals and communities. The global significance of soils demands global responses – responses that take the human rights of land users seriously.

Auteurs et éditeurs

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Chemnitz, Christine
Weigelt, Jes

Corporate Author(s): 

The Heinrich Böll Foundation


  • is a catalyst for green visions and projects, a 
  • think tank for policy reform, and an international network
  • is closely affiliated to the German Green Party
  • promotes the development of democratic civil society at home and abroad
  • defends equal rights and equal opportunities regardless of gender, sexual orientation, 
  • religion, ethnicity, or nationality

The Potsdam Nobel Laureates Symposium “Global Sustainability – A Nobel Cause” brought together internationally renowned scientists and decision-makers under the patronage of German Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel in 2007. The symposium produced the highly regarded Potsdam Memorandum, which calls for a joint effort to tap into “all sources of innovation and invention” to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. Specifically, it identifies the need for a new “global contract” to increase sustainability in the age of the Anthropocene.


Publisher(s): 

The Heinrich Böll Foundation


  • is a catalyst for green visions and projects, a 
  • think tank for policy reform, and an international network
  • is closely affiliated to the German Green Party
  • promotes the development of democratic civil society at home and abroad
  • defends equal rights and equal opportunities regardless of gender, sexual orientation, 
  • religion, ethnicity, or nationality

Fournisseur de données

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.


 

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