{"id":17855,"date":"2022-04-21T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/?p=17855"},"modified":"2022-04-22T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T09:46:56","slug":"ukraine-russia-black-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/agricultural-industry\/ukraine-russia-black-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"War and climate change threaten Ukraine’s ‘magic’ soil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Standing behind Ukraine’s legendary agricultural wealth is the \u010dernoz\u00ebm<\/em>, an exceptionally fertile soil covering two-thirds of the country’s arable land. But war and climate change are undermining the crops<\/h2>\n

by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n

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In addition to the priceless human cost it has generated, the Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/strong> has been causing justifiable fear from an economic perspective. Observers, in fact, are paying attention to the fallout<\/a> on the exports of food commodities such as wheat, corn and cereals, which are the main source of the Earth’s diet and whose price<\/strong> has soared due to the decline of supplies from Kiev.<\/p>\n

Nothing to be surprised about. The weight of Ukraine in the global market for these products is well known. Less well known, perhaps, is the importance of a peculiar factor that characterizes the country’s agricultural industry: an extraordinarily fertile<\/strong> soil.<\/p>\n

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More fertility, less emissions. A new project will identify the best mix for soil and climate<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n