Nearly all aspects of human life, such as the provision of food and feed, fiber, fuel and firewood, infrastructure and housing development, as well as carbon sinks, oxygen production, and a multitude ...
Nearly all aspects of human life, such as the provision of food and feed, fiber, fuel and firewood, infrastructure and housing development, as well as carbon sinks, oxygen production, and a multitude of ecosystem services, fundamentally depend on soil. However, previous soil management and use, resource misuse, exploitation of water and nutrient sources, as well as soil sealing and compaction have all led to a sharp decrease in nutrient rich soils. With this loss, fundamental requirements for development, the eradication of poverty and hunger, and intact ecosystems are being destroyed.
We call for
By 2030, zero net land degradation by prioritizing the preservation of fertile soil, improvement of water-holding capacity, restoration of degraded soils, and through measures that prevent land conversion for agricultural use, while simultaneously ensuring the right to food and prioritization of local communities’ rights and usage forms as well as their involvement in measures aiming at soil fertility improvement.
By 2020, the prevention of land- and water-grabbing; the binding implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security agreed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to safeguard land rights; the establishment of human-rights-based mechanisms to control investors in their home countries; and equitable access to fertile soil favoring small-scale producers.
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