{"id":20665,"date":"2022-09-22T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/?p=20665"},"modified":"2022-09-20T19:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T17:07:56","slug":"soil-new-research-paradigm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/environment\/soil-new-research-paradigm\/","title":{"rendered":"British researchers propose a new theory of soil health"},"content":{"rendered":"

If we want to analyze soil health, we cannot rely on single indicators, says a new paper by Cranfield and Nottingham Universities. Instead, we need to focus on the relationships among the components of the system to get a complete picture. At the center of the new approach are four different dimensions<\/h2>\n

by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n

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What is soil health? How can we measure it? What are the key properties which define it? It is hard, for now, to give specific answers. But perhaps, some scientists suggest, it is time to rethink<\/strong> at least some of our paradigms<\/strong>. The proposal comes from a new research<\/a> from Cranfield and Nottingham Universities in the United Kingdom, which calls for changing the way we imagine, measure and study the land to gain a better understanding of it,<\/p>\n

“Although \u2018soil health\u2019<\/strong> as a term is quite widely used now, it is problematic as it means different things to different people,” explains<\/a> Jim Harris<\/strong>, professor of Environmental Technology at Cranfield University and co-author of the study. Today, he adds, “there is no single agreed way to measure the overall health of this system.”<\/p>\n

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See some WEF’s suggestions to protect European soil from drought emergency<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n