Report2015
Status of the World's Soil Resources
FAO & ITPS
Surveys erosion, nutrient loss, compaction and salinisation worldwide and argues most of the world's soils are now degrading faster than they are being restored.
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Soil Fertility
A topic within Crop Science & Agronomy, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Agriculture & Food Systems.
Reading on Soil Fertility
22 works
Book1840
Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology
Justus von Liebig
Founds soil fertility on chemistry rather than folklore, arguing that crop growth is limited by whichever mineral nutrient is scarcest in the soil rather than by the total amount of nutrients present.
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