State of Knowledge of Soil Biodiversity: Status, Challenges, and Potentialities

Anne Winding; Brajesh K. Singh; Elizabeth Bach; George Brown; Junling Zhang; Miguel Cooper; Patrice Dion; Pauline Mele; Nico Eisenhauer; Sergio Pena-Neira; Zoe Lindo

doi:10.4060/cb1928en

State of Knowledge of Soil Biodiversity: Status, Challenges, and Potentialities

Anne Winding
, Brajesh K. Singh
, Elizabeth Bach
, George Brown
, Junling Zhang
, Miguel Cooper
, Patrice Dion
, Pauline Mele
, Nico Eisenhauer
, Sergio Pena-Neira
, Zoe Lindo

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This report presents the threats to soil biodiversity and the solutions that soil biodiversity can provide to problems in different fields, including agriculture, environmental conservation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, nutrition, medicine and pharmaceuticals, remediation of polluted sites, and many others. There is increasing attention on the importance of biodiversity for food security and nutrition, especially above-ground biodiversity such as plants and animals. Less attention is being paid to the biodiversity beneath our feet: soil biodiversity. Yet the rich diversity of soil organisms drives many processes that produce food, regenerate soil or purify water. This report is the result of an inclusive process involving more than 300 scientists from around the world under the auspices of FAO's Global Soil Partnership and its Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, and the European Commission.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Italy
Publisher	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Number of pages	583
ISBN (Print)	9789251335826
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4060/cb1928en
Publication status	Published - 2020

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