GEN Solution Library/Healthy soils

About the challenge

Several useful links to resources from the Africa Soil Information Service.

  • Degradation of soils resulting in low harvest yields, ecological demise, climate change, etcetera.

Description

  • The first video link explains in 10 minutes why healthy soils are crucial for Africa's prosperity and health.
  • The second video links to the great documentary Dirt! on why soil needs to be alive in order to sustain a healthy ecosystem and food production.
  • The third link directs to a page on the Africa Soil Information Service website with several links to soil maps, soil quality databases and other tools that may be useful to investigate the quality of the soils in your area.
  • The fourth link directs to a page on the World Soil Information website with soil property maps of Africa.
Page data
Authors Ernesto Sun
License CC-BY-SA-4.0
Organizations Global Ecovillages NetworkGEN Africa
Ported from https://www.ecovillage.org/solution/healthy-soils/ (original)
Cite as Ernesto Sun (2025). "GEN Solution Library/Healthy soils". Appropedia. Retrieved February 26, 2026.
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