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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-541-2020
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Soil: the great connector of our lives now and beyond COVID-19
Department of Environment and Soil Science, Universitat de Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
Lucia H. C. dos Anjos
Department of Soils, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, CEP 23.897-000, Seropédica, Brazil
Rafla Attia
Direction Générale de l'Aménagement et de Conservation des Terres Agricoles, Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Ressources Hydrauliques et de la Pêche, 1002 Tunis, Tunisia
Megan Balks
School of Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3216, New Zealand
Adalberto Benavides-Mendoza
Department of Horticulture, Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro, Saltillo 25315, Mexico
Martha M. Bolaños-Benavides
Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation – AGROSAVIA, Centro de Investigación
Tibaitata, Mosquera, Colombia
Costanza Calzolari
CNR – Institute of BioEconomy, 50029 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Lydia M. Chabala
Department of Soil Science, University of Zambia, P.O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia
Peter C. de Ruiter
Biometris, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Samuel Francke-Campaña
National Forest Corporation, Ministry of Agriculture, Santiago, Chile
Fernando García Préchac
Soil and Water Management and Conservation, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República, Montevideo 12900, Uruguay
Ellen R. Graber
The Volcani Center, ARO, Rishon LeZion 7505101, Israel
Siosiua Halavatau
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Food & Fisheries, Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Kutaiba M. Hassan
Ministry of Agriculture, Baghdad, Iraq
Edmond Hien
Joseph Ki-Zerbo University, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Ke Jin
Grassland Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot 010020, Inner Mongolia, China
Mohammad Khan
Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, The University of
Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan
Maria Konyushkova
Eurasian Center for Food Security, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Moscow, Russia
David A. Lobb
Department of Soil Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada
Matshwene E. Moshia
Faculty of Science and Agriculture, University of Fort Hare, Alice 5700, South Africa
Jun Murase
Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Generose Nziguheba
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Central Africa Hub Coordination Office, Nairobi, Kenya
Ashok K. Patra
ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 462038, India
Gary Pierzynski
College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Natalia Rodríguez Eugenio
Global Soil Partnership, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 00153 Rome, Italy
Ronald Vargas Rojas
Global Soil Partnership, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 00153 Rome, Italy
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Short summary
Humanity depends on the existence of healthy soils, both for the production of food and for ensuring a healthy, biodiverse environment. In the face of global crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, a sustainable soil management strategy is essential to ensure food security based on more diverse, locally oriented, and resilient food production systems through improving access to land, sound land use planning, sustainable soil management, enhanced research, and investment in education and extension.
Humanity depends on the existence of healthy soils, both for the production of food and for...
