Today, on World Soil Day, CFAES celebrates the essential role of soil in sustaining life.
And we use this day to share exciting news. CFAES’ Rattan Lal Carbon Management and Sequestration Center and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture are teaming up to launch the new “Living Soils of the Americas” initiative. Its goals: Fight the degradation of soil, improve people’s food security.
What’s the best we can do for the soil? Take care of it. Protect it. Make it healthier.
In Africa, CFAES researcher Richard Dick discovered a shrub that does just that—and in doing so, gives hope for greater food security. Read the story.
Please join us tomorrow for a celebration of World Soil Day.
“Restoring soil health,” CFAES soil scientist Rattan Lal says, “is essential to restoring human health.”
As 2020 World Food Prize laureate, he knows that solving our biggest challenges starts beneath our feet.
For farmers, managing their soil well means giving exactly what it needs. No more, no less.
Now they have updated guidelines to do that from CFAES researcher Steve Culman and team.
The guidelines’ goal is healthy soil — and healthy crops and water too.
CFAES researcher Nicholas Basta is an expert on things that may contaminate soil.
Here, in an article on HGTV’s website, he shares tips for gardeners on dealing with a bad one.
The upcoming World Soil Day shows that the soil’s health is linked to our own.
We invite you to join us this Friday, Dec. 4, for a celebration of World Soil Day. Our free public virtual program will feature:
Forests News, Oct. 19; featuring Rattan Lal, School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR)
Waste 360, Oct. 16; featuring Jill Bartolotta, Ohio Sea Grant
Radio Iowa, Oct. 15; featuring Rattan Lal, SENR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xl_PA6-MVU&feature=youtu.be
CFAES last week honored its own Rattan Lal, 2020 World Food Prize Laureate, with a video retrospective of his life and career, which you can watch above. Lal is Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science in the School of Environment and Natural Resources.
The video includes the announcement that Lal’s name is being added to the center that he founded—what will now be called the Rattan Lal Carbon Management and Sequestration Center.
You can watch the World Food Prize award ceremony itself, which the World Food Prize Foundation hosted on Oct. 15, here.
Des Moines (Iowa) Business Record, Oct. 13; featuring Rattan Lal, School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR)
Ohio State News, Oct. 5; featuring Rattan Lal, SENR
No-Till Farmer, Sept. 17; partnership with CFAES cited
Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of soil science in CFAES’ School of Environment and Natural Resources, will receive the 2020 World Food Prize in a ceremony set for 10–11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 15.
Later the same day, he will be honored during a CFAES-hosted virtual event called “The Legacy of Dr. Rattan Lal” from 2–2:45 p.m. EDT.
Watch the morning ceremony here. Register to attend the afternoon event here.
Lal speaks on turning science into action in the 2018 video above.