Soil pollution: a hidden reality
Material type: TextPublication details: Rome Food and Agriculture Organization 2018Description: 156pISBN:- 978-92-5-130505-8
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Soil pollution poses a worrisome threat to agricultural productivity, food safety, and human health, but far too little is known about the scale and severity of that threat, warns a new FAO report released at the start of a global symposium. Industrialization, war, mining and the intensification of agriculture have all left a legacy of soil contamination across the planet, while the growth of cities has seen soil used as a sink for ever greater amounts of municipal waste, says Soil Pollution: A Hidden Reality.
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