Global Food Crisis Looms: Campaigners Urge Urgent Action to Protect Depleting Soil at COP28

Global Food Crisis Looms: Campaigners Urge Urgent Action to Protect Depleting Soil at COP28

As COP28 commences in Dubai, campaigners issue a stark warning: a looming global food production crisis unless urgent action is taken to preserve the Earth's soil.

Nearly one-third of the planet's soil is already degraded, with an area the size of a soccer pitch eroded every five seconds, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.