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Rock becomes visible as topsoil is eroded away.Credit: Martin Harvey/Getty
January 28, 2022
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To ensure food security, the world must stop letting fertile soil wash and blow away. Soil creates life from death. The production of more than 95% of the food we eat relies on soil...Yet this precious resource is eroding at a global average of 13.5 tonnes per hectare per year. Instead of nourishing crops, fertile topsoil is ending up in inconvenient places such as ditches, reservoirs and the ocean.

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