Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

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    • Soil biodiversity is mainly completely ignored in a conventional agriculture. However, its benefits to soil structure, fertility, nutrient cycling and water percolation has been observed and proven in many experiments and described in many papers. However, the conventional tillage and removal of surface residues (and other "routines") have a detrimental effect on, for instance, earthworm populations with a particular impact on deep burrowing (anecic) species. The balance between methods used in agriculture (tillage, pesticides and fertilizer usage, residue removal) to maintain high productivity and keeping the soil biodiversity in order to gain the best from it and save soils should be our goal.