The livelihoods of millions of Ugandans are rooted in the highlands – the mountainous or elevated regions of the East African country. Scattered along the eastern and western borders, the highlands of ...

A research team proposes a method to calculate, compare and communicate how different crops affect the loss of agricultural soil, with the aim of raising awareness of this problem and promoting ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Soil erosion, the most common type of land degradation, ...

A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...

In new research published today in the European Geosciences Union journal Biogeosciences, two scientists address the soil organic carbon erosion paradox Early studies assumed that a substantial ...