Agricultural policy: Govern our soils (original) (raw)

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Luca Montanarella calls for a voluntary international agreement to protect the ground beneath our feet from erosion and degradation.

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Luca Montanarella is a senior expert at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy, and chair of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils.,
Luca Montanarella

Correspondence toLuca Montanarella.

Montanarella, L. Agricultural policy: Govern our soils.Nature 528, 32–33 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/528032a