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'We urgently need healthy soils to ensure essential services they provide,' Ban says on World Soil Day

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UN News Centre

Publication Date
2016-12-05

Marking World Soil Day, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed the importance of healthy soils, adding that “sustainable management systems and practices will unlock the full potential of soils to support food production, store and supply clean water, preserve biodiversity, sequester more carbon and increase resilience to a changing climate.”

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