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Soil, Food, Agriculture & Water

World

Soil is the entry point into everything else. The world loses topsoil far faster than it forms, and that single fact runs through food yield, agricultural practice and water use. This portal follows the chain: how much is going, what happens to food if it keeps going, and which interventions have evidence behind them.

Added September 7, 2026

Topsoil lost yearly
~24 bn tonnes
Formation rate
~1 inch / 500 yrs
Degraded farmland
~33% globally
Freshwater to agriculture
~70%

Ask OMNi to compare two interventions on cost, scale and how strong the evidence really is.