"A healthy soil with an ideal amount of soil organic carbon can provide good plant growing conditions, help nutrient cycling and allow adequate water infiltration and storage"
Soil scientists from the James Hutton Institute, along with colleagues at Cranfield University, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, have contributed to the development of the first Global Soil Organic Matter map launched today (World Soil Day 2017), by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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