Soil Fertility: Why do we need to protect soils from degradation?

Come and join us at this public meeting to mark 2015 as the International Year of Soils! This event will look at soil fertility and the need to protect soils from degradation.

Professor Sir Gordon Conway Chair in International Development, Imperial College London and Professor David Powlson Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems, Rothamsted Research will discuss the impacts of global land management on soil quality and fertility, and how soil degradation affects humans and the environment.