Accelerated erosion from poor farming practices accounts for 1.1 billion tons of carbon emissions annually.
All of the world’s topsoil could be gone in 60 years.
How Can Building Healthy Soil Help?
Agroforestry systems that prevent or reduce erosion on slopes include plantation polycultures, homegardens and multistrata systems, alley cropping and contour hedgerows, and silvopasture.
One study found that multistory tree gardens actually had less erosion than a natural rain forest!