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- Land provides vital environmental functions and ecosystem services, including provisioning and regulating services. It is also inextricably linked to human well-being and plays a role in food security and livelihoods.
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SDG 13 (climate action), by increasing resilience and creating synergistic actions for climate change adaptation and mitigation, for example by increasing soil carbon stocks. Land provides vital environmental functions and ecosystem services, including provisioning and regulating services.
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Aug 3, 2023 · Why is healthy soil so important? Soil health is a critical component of our natural environment. Without healthy soil, we can’t grow the crops that provide us with food, and plants can’t produce oxygen or remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Why is soil health important? Soil is the foundation of agriculture and sustains life on earth by providing nutrients, clean air and water. Healthy soil helps produce robust plants, increasing crop yields, food production and food security.
Jul 15, 2019 · land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss. Why? Forests cover nearly 31 per cent of our planet’s land area. From the air we breathe, to the water we drink, to the food we eat–forests ...
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END DESERTIFICATION AND RESTORE DEGRADED LAND. By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world.
Preserving diverse forms of life on land requires targeted efforts to protect, restore and promote the conservation and sustainable use of terrestrial and other ecosystems. Goal 15 focuses specifically on managing forests sustainably, halting and reversing land and natural habitat degradation, successfully combating desertification and stopping ...
Dec 5, 2023 · Soil helps produce our food and unearth life-saving medicines and vaccines. Soil also filters and purifies our water, reduces flooding, regulates the atmosphere and plays a crucial role in driving the carbon and nitrogen cycles. It is also key to tackling climate change as it captures and stores vast amounts of carbon.
