Global Need for Soil Doctors

Touch the Soil News #1898 (Feature Photo – Topsoil Loss  – Photo courtesy USDA NRCS) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is launching the Global Soil Doctors Programme, designed to asses soil conditions and remedying soil problems.  A reason for the international interest is that estimates are that 24 percent of the world’s productive lands…

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Hungry in the Middle of an Agricultural Utopia

Touch the Soil News #1890 (Feature Photo – Latin America – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Mexican Golden Eagle) Foodtank News brings up an interesting question regarding Latin America: How is it that, given our wealth of agricultural resources, we always seem to find ourselves on hunger’s precipice? After all, of the world’s 12 so-called mega…

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Guarantees that Public Land is Kept Forever as Community Gardens

Touch the Soil News #1889 (Feature Photo – Allotment Garden – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Allotment Gardens by Alex McGregor) Community Growers in the small nation of Ireland (5 million people), have become alerted that their gardening plots are not secure from development. A new movement has started to ensure that growing allotments are secure…

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