Top soil loss threatens food security Intensive agriculture and deforestation are major causes of land degradation involving soil erosion, leaving large areas vulnerable to the loss of fertile top ...

Milder winters and extended warm seasons due to global warming ... Lindsey]. Soil erosion, while a natural process, ...

Soils are becoming severely degraded due to a combination ... 50 years from 1959, soil structure and levels of organic matter had degraded while acidity had increased. “Erosion from the wind ...

However, modern development of roads, real estate projects, buildings, bridges, and other man-made structures has resulted in rapid deforestation ... stabilizing soil, erosion occurs of the ...