World Soil Day: Better soil data can feed the planet
For professor Dr. Asim Biswas, the world is full of new problems requiring new solutions.
By 2030, the global population will reach 8.5 billion, driving an immense demand for food. At the same time, climate change is weakening food systems by depleting soil, a resource so precious it takes 100 years to form a single inch.
As the University of Guelph School of Environmental Sciences professor writes in Nature, there is an “urgent need for improved measurement, reporting and verification of soil health.”
For World Soil Day 2024, he says data is the answer – cheap, rapid and accurate soil data – and that his research into affordable technology can transform the way we feed the world.
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The Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance has supported several of Biswas' soil mapping studies; learn more about his Alliance-funded research here: