Intensive farming has left a significant proportion of the world’s farmland in a degraded state or already permanently destroyed. This is due to the loss of organic matter in soils, resulting in structural degradation, compaction and erosion, acidification, salinisation or even overuse of fertilisers and pesticides. About half of Hungary’s land is under cultivation, which could produce enough food for nearly 20 million people. However, two-thirds of our land is under threat from some form of fertility-reducing soil degradation.

In order to change this process, we need a change of mindset and a smart, knowledge-based, even soil-centred sustainable, climate-smart agriculture. The Institute for Soil Sciences takes part of the elaboration in the framework of the EJP SOIL European project.

The film is available at the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWVT-u1wps