Agricultural Soil Degradation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Pereira, Paulo; Inácio, Miguel; Bogunović, Igor; Symochko, Lyudmyla; Barceló, Damià; Zhao, Wenwu

doi:10.1007/698_2023_967

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“…This war is expected to leave a toxic legacy for generations to come due to the severe long-lasting damage to the environment and the resulting long-term consequences on human health and ecosystems (Fontaine, 2024;Pearce, 2024). Similar consequences of sustainability have been recently reported on others wars, such as the war in Ukraine (Pereira et al, 2022;El Bilali and Hassen, 2024).…”

Section: Sustainabilitysupporting

confidence: 85%

“…The negative impact of wars and armed conflicts (such as the war in Ukraine) on sustainability with its three pillars, the social, economic, and environmental dimensions has been abundantly explored and demonstrated in various recent publications (Pereira et al, 2022;Chishti et al, 2023;da Costa et al, 2023;Neik et al, 2023;Béné et al, 2024). Food security remains a global challenge that is aligned with several SDGs, including SDG 1-No Poverty, SDG 2-No Hunger, SDG 3-Good Health and Well-Being, SDG 13-Climate protection, and SDG 15-Life on land (Pandey and Pandey, 2023).…”

Section: Examples Of Food Weaponisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From acute food insecurity to famine: how the 2023/2024 war on Gaza has dramatically set back sustainable development goal 2 to end hunger

Hassoun,

Al-Muhannadi,

Hassan

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The widespread destruction and the devastating humanitarian toll caused by the ongoing war on Gaza have transformed this besieged Strip into a place of death and despair. This review will explore the implications of this war for food security, focusing on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, which seeks to fight malnutrition and food insecurity and achieve zero hunger by 2030. This work is based on a review of grey literature, such as reports from government and non-governmental agencies, as well as recent scientific journal publications. Our results show that the ongoing war on Gaza has exacerbated the already acute food insecurity that Gazans have been struggling with since the blockade was imposed in 2007. Restless bombardment and ground operations have damaged or even razed agricultural land and all food production infrastructure (such as bakeries, mills, and food processing facilities), destroying Gaza’s food system. Facing catastrophic levels of hunger, some families, especially in northern Gaza have recently been resorting to eating animal feed and weeds to survive. With the starvation of civilians being used as a method of warfare, many experts and human rights organizations argue that Gaza is now the world’s worst hunger crisis and its population is on the verge of famine, if not already there. Moreover, this unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Gaza could have significant consequences on global food security in its six pillars, jeopardizing the implementation of SDG 2. While international organizations are making efforts to mitigate the catastrophic food shortage and famine, more comprehensive and sustainable solutions are needed to address the root causes of food insecurity in Gaza and ensure that all residents have access to an adequate and nutritious diet.

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confidence: 85%

Section: Examples Of Food Weaponisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

From acute food insecurity to famine: how the 2023/2024 war on Gaza has dramatically set back sustainable development goal 2 to end hunger

Hassoun,

Al-Muhannadi,

Hassan

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…It leads to the physical, chemical and biological decline in soil quality (Lal 2022), causes a decline in soil fertility (Wang et al 2021), loss of soil organic matter (Gregory 2023), erosion (Lal 2022), adverse changes in acidity, salinity or alkalinity (Xu et al 2023), excessive flooding, and/or the accumulation of toxic chemicals and pollutants . Many recent books have been published focusing on soil degradation issues such as soil management and climate change (Muñoz and Zornoza 2018), the impact of agriculture on soil degradation (Abdullahi et al 2023;Pereira et al 2023;Ganzour et al 2024;Sári et al 2024a), global degradation of soil and water resources (Li et al 2022), and increasing understanding of soil degradation (Saljnikov et al (2022a). Therefore, this mini-review focuses on soil degradation under changing climate.…”

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Soil Degradation under a Changing Climate: Management from Traditional to Nano-Approaches

El-Ramady,

Brevik,

Abowaly

et al. 2024

Egypt.J. Soil Sci.

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N THE ERA of anthropogenic climate change, soil and other compartments of the agroecosystem suffer from various forms of degradation, meaning there is an urgent need for appropriate soil management. Under arid and semi-arid conditions, the degradation of soil and water are particularly severe globally, causing a decline in agricultural productivity. Soil degradation has led to decreased soil quality, global food insecurity, ecosystem health problems, and non-sustainable development issues. Several human activities have worsened soil degradation, especially under global climate change. With growing interest in nanotechnology, can this science offer solutions/approaches to engineer soil and water amendments to overcome soil degradation and water scarcity? What are the possible nanomaterials and their mechanisms that might be used to protect the environment. This study focuses on soil degradation causes and consequences, as well as different management approaches including traditional, geographic information systems and remote sensing, and nano approaches for the management of soil degradation. Soil degradation that may be experienced after the intensive application of nanomaterials is a major concern that urgently needs to be researched. There is also a need to assess the long-term environmental impacts of nanoparticles, which may have potential for leaching and accumulation in soil from which they enter the food chain, causing many problems for human health.

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Agricultural Soil Degradation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Cited by 2 publications

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From acute food insecurity to famine: how the 2023/2024 war on Gaza has dramatically set back sustainable development goal 2 to end hunger

From acute food insecurity to famine: how the 2023/2024 war on Gaza has dramatically set back sustainable development goal 2 to end hunger

Soil Degradation under a Changing Climate: Management from Traditional to Nano-Approaches

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