Exploring Linkages Between Soil Health and Human Health

by Health and Medicine Division, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Food and Nutrition Board

The United States is an important food producer globally, in part because of its abundance of agriculturally productive soils. However, management practices that maximize yields have caused losses in soil organic matter, poor soil structure and water-holding capacity, and increased salinity on millions of acres of land - and have adversely affected the microbial communities that are the drivers of many soil processes. At the same time, recent scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309715083
• ISBN13: 9780309715089
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 354 Pages