We have poor access to affordable healthy food, fertile soil to grow nutrient-rich food, fresh air and water, recreational space and family and community support.
Mulching is a cheap, affordable, sustainable agricultural technology for sustainable soil and land management and reducing soil erosion, which can be adopted by small as well as large farmers.
There is, especially in precision agriculture, an increasing demand world over for affordable sensors for in situ (field deployable) soil quality assessment (SQA) applicable at an ecological scale due to the interplay between soil quality and environmental degradation.
Five potential soil amendment materials derived from affordable, abundant sources have been tested as filter media using shaker tests and were found to remove dissolved metals in stormwater runoff.
The environmental friendliness of both DESs and saponin and their affordable costs merit thorough investigation of their potential as soil washing agents.
Currently, to many soil fertility difficulties, animal manures offer an affordable and readily available solution (Spore 2006) and are important source of Ca, Mg, S and micronutrients (Gomez-Brandon et al. 2013); they contain low and highly variable amounts of N, P and K. Aside from being source of plant nutrients, the physical properties of soil are also improved (Akanni and Ojeniyi 2008).
Indirect health benefits can come from reduced pesticide use, lower occurrence of mycotoxins (caused by insect or disease damage), increased availability of affordable food and the removal of toxic compounds from soil.
We posit that the deployment of standardized arrays of Pt-electrodes will offer an affordable option to monitor the general metabolic state of the soil system and simultaneously quantify the functional heterogeneity of underlying processes at any point in time.
Golf Digest magazine's pick for "the best new affordable" public course of 2002, Rustic Canyon is treeless with firm, sandy soil in a broad, wild canyon north of Los Angeles.
Phytoremediation is a cost-effective, environmentally friendly, nonintrusive, and affordable technological solution used to extract or remove inactive metals and metal pollutants from contaminated soil and water.
