Dossier
Soil Health
Healthy soils are vital. For our food production, for water retention, carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, underground and above-ground biodiversity. Unfortunately, the quality and health of our soils is deteriorating rapidly. Time for a change: the European Commission has presented a new Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience, to legally protect the soil. In this dossier, Wageningen experts will show you the importance of soil and what is needed to manage our soils sustainably.
Feedback to the European Commission
Soil health and why it needs Europe-wide protection
Seventeen soil experts of Wageningen University & Research have collaboratively written a policy discussion note on the importance of soil health and a European Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive.
Read more about the proposed Directive
Meet the experts
Rachel Creamer
Edwin Alblas
Liesje Mommer
Jeanne Nel
Esmer Jongedijk
Janjo de Haan
Publications
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One Health - Cycling of diverse microbial communities as a connecting force for soil, plant, animal, human and ecosystem health
Science of the Total Environment (2019), Volume: 664 - ISSN 0048-9697 - p. 927-937. -
Diergeneesmiddelen & hormonen in het milieu door de toediening van drijfmest : Een verkennende studie in de Provincie Gelderland naar antibiotica, antiparasitaire middelen, coccidiostatica en natuurlijke hormonen in mest, (water)bodem, grondwater en oppervlaktewater
Wageningen: Wageningen Environmental Research (Wageningen Environmental Research rapport 2898) -
Complementing the top soil information of the Land Use/Land Cover Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) with modelled N2O emissions
PLoS ONE (2017), Volume: 12, Issue: 4 - ISSN 1932-6203