Rethink Soil Value | Why Not Reflect the True Cost of Soil Erosion in the Economic Value of Land?

Food for thought

• The United States is losing soil 10 times faster -- and China and India are losing soil 30 to 40 times faster -- than the natural replenishment rate.
• As a result of erosion over the past 40 years, 30% of the world's arable land has become unproductive.
• Farmland is shrinking by almost 37,000 square miles/year due to soil erosion.

 

--Cornell University