Participants of an international meeting at the German Federal Environment Agency, Berlin in September 2011: Noting that soils are the basis for life on earth, and that food, feed, fibre and bioenergy production as well as the entire terrestrial biodiversity directly depend on them, Further noting that soils are inter alia the medium of plant growth, sources of terrestrial net primary production, reservoirs of gene pools, moderators of climate, sinks of atmospheric carbon, reservoirs of plant nutrients and cycling, and providers of clean water. Read More
