A conservation scientist, Oluwadamilola Ogundipe, has identified smarter ways to map and protect Nigeria’s biodiversity.

Kenya’s agricultural potential is widely celebrated, yet beneath this promise lies a hidden crisis. Our soils are under ...

From land use maps, we identified two types of pastures: managed pasture (PAST) and degraded pasture (RNGB). Degraded pastures are those that are used extensively with little investment and low ...

Less than 5% of Gaza’s cropland area remains available for cultivation, exacerbating the risk of famine, UN agencies warn.

The situation is critical in Rafah in the south of the enclave and in northern governorates, FAO and UNOSAT said ...

Less than five percent of the Gaza Strip’s cropland area remains available for cultivation, according to the latest ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the announcement of an additional $10 million from the United States Department of State for projects mapping soil ...

For decades, the Fleurieu Peninsula’s swamps were routinely drained. But as the region battles the driest conditions on ...

The study was carried out in an agricultural area of 120 ha with soil classified as an Oxisol. The directed sampling designs were based on MZ delimited from data of elevation and overlapping of crop ...

This report was produced from the FAO Soil Map of the World at a scale of 1:5,000,000, which was created between 1970 and 1981. Due to its coarse resolution, high generalization, and environmental ...