An estimated 90% of South Africa’s rangelands are degraded.  In many of our communally managed rangelands, poor land and ...

This means that countries with less developed economies are estimated to have experienced the highest soil erosion rates. South America surpasses Africa with an estimated increase of soil erosion ...

SOIL erosion has reached crisis levels along the KwaZulu-Natal coast, prompting the province's MEC for agriculture and environmental affairs to call on all provincial departments to make a ...

Pretoria — Water and Environmental Affairs Deputy Minister, Rejoice Mabudafhasi, has unveiled the Bathlabine Soil Conservation Project in Greater Tzaneen municipality in Limpopo. The project ...

In South Africa, it's often said we lose 13 tons of topsoil per hectare of maize harvested, ... Conservation agriculture not only preserves soil from erosion, it also actively grows topsoil. And that ...

The primary cause is soil erosion. ... Africa, Eastern Europe and South America register the greatest phosphorus losses -- with limited options for solving the problem.

Soil erosion in South Africa. (Supplied: Dr Liesl Wiese) Africa severely degraded. The situation in Africa is hard to gauge, according to South African soil consultant Liesl Wiese, who is also a ...