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{"title":"Effect of Preferential Microplastics Leaching Through Macropores on Vertical Soil Particle Transport","authors":"Ahsan Maqbool,&nbsp;Wang Li,&nbsp;Christine Stumpp,&nbsp;María-Auxiliadora Soriano,&nbsp;José A. Gómez","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70140","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Microplastic particles are an emerging pollutant that can be transported through preferential pathways, such as macropores. Agricultural soils, prone to microplastic contamination, often have macroporosity due to biological activity, natural formation of soil aggregates, desiccation cracks, or no-till practices. However, little is known about the factors controlling microplastic leaching through soil macropores. In this study, artificial soil-like macroporosity (2.5% v/v) was developed in packed soil columns to investigate the effect of macropore size, that is, 2, 3 and 4 mm, on the leaching of microplastics of three sizes, that is, 53–63, 75–90 and 125–150 μm, and the influence of both factors on the vertical mobilisation of soil particles. Under artificial rainfall (30.6 mm h⁻¹ for 30 min), microplastics were preferentially leached, with over 50% of the 75–90 μm and 125–150 μm particles transported, regardless of macropore size. Macropores without microplastics leached a significant amount of soil particles. Macropore characteristics, including pore diameter, number, and surface area, were strongly correlated with vertical soil particle transport. Microplastics increased vertical soil particle transport through macropores by a factor of about 1.6. A conceptual framework was developed to explain the observed mechanisms, emphasising the collisional forces exerted by microplastic particles detaching soil particles. Our results suggest that microplastic flow induced additional stress on macropore walls, intensifying soil particle mobilisation. This study also highlights that macropores (i.e., biopores) might be an underestimated driver of microplastic transport in the vadose zone and their role in intensifying vertical displacement of surface soil to subsurface layers. Given the environmental implications, further research will be needed to study these processes under field conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejss.70140","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of Future Soil Ecosystem Services of a Drained Soil Under Different Climate Change Scenarios","authors":"Maha Chalhoub,&nbsp;Patricia Garnier,&nbsp;Yves Coquet,&nbsp;David Montagne,&nbsp;Philippe C. Baveye","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70144","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In order to prepare for the necessary adaptation to climate change, it would be useful to have some idea of how the services provided by soils to human societies are going to evolve in the future. Unfortunately, since actual measurements of soil services remain elusive in general, modelling efforts needed to predict their future evolution are fraught with very large uncertainties. In one particular situation, however, on the Saclay plateau south of Paris (France), it has been possible to measure five soil services: three provisioning services (supply of water to nearby stream, provision of, respectively, water and nitrogen to wheat crop), two regulating services (flood mitigation, and filtration of pollutant), as well as the amount of wheat produced on site. In the present article, we take advantage of available measurements to parametrize a soil–plant–atmosphere model (STICS), which we combine with three future climate change scenarios to investigate the extent to which soil services will change until the end of the century. Simulation results suggest that the soils at the Saclay site are unexpectedly resilient to climate change, with statistically significant changes occurring in four of the six services only for the most extreme scenario, under which no mitigation effort at all is taking place. Even then, significant changes occur only between 2071 and 2100. The increase in temperature and relative CO₂ pressure in the air leads to a shortening of the plant growth cycle by approximately 2 weeks when comparing the most pessimistic scenario to the most optimistic one. This shortening of the plant cycle means that the end of the growth period no longer overlaps with the summer season, which is typically associated with drought events and heat waves. As a result, the impact of climate change on plant growth is not easily detectable. At this stage, the simulations rest on the assumption that current rainfall patterns will remain the same in the future as they are now. If, as is predicted, rainfall events become more intense and less frequent in the future, the daily precipitation averages currently available will no longer be sufficient, and more accurate, hourly data will be needed to predict the evolution of soil services accurately.</p>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejss.70144","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Operational Digital Soil Mapping: Achievements, Challenges and Future Strategies to Go Beyond","authors":"Philippe Lagacherie","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70139","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the first two decades of this century, two projects, GlobalSoilMap and SoilGrids, concretized Digital Soil Mapping's (DSM) move from research to operational activity. These projects have helped provide users with standardised global soil information. Despite their undeniable success, the current GlobalSoilMap and SoilGrids products still have limitations. First, the accuracy of DSM products remains poor—the accuracy challenge. Second, a large number of soil properties are still not addressed by current DSM applications—the relevance challenge. Such limitations greatly hinder the effective use of current DSM products for decision-making, especially when decisions are to be made at the local level. To overcome the above limitations, I argue that the current broad-scale strategies for the operational application of DSM—in the GlobalSoilMap and SoilGrids projects—should be complemented by a new strategy that would focus on more local scales and would be more open to local soil knowledge and the needs of local soil users. Applying such a local strategy raises some important questions—which local scale? How to build a participative DSM? Do we need new DSM models? How do we organise the implementation of the new local DSM strategy? These are briefly discussed in this paper.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144323601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interactive Effects of Biochar and Pesticides on Native Soil Organic Matter Mineralisation","authors":"Christophe Moni,&nbsp;Eva Farkas,&nbsp;Claire Coutris,&nbsp;Hanna Silvennoinen,&nbsp;Anders Bjørnsgaard Aas,&nbsp;Marit Almvik,&nbsp;Liang Wang,&nbsp;Kathinka Lang,&nbsp;Liu Xingang,&nbsp;Marianne Stenrød","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70137","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Biochar and pesticides are likely to be increasingly used in combination in agricultural soils, yet their combined effects on climate change mitigation remain unexplored. This study presents an 8-month incubation experiment with different soil types (silt loam and sandy loam), biochars (corncob and corn stem), and pesticides (with and without a pesticide mixture), during which CO₂ production from soil organic matter (SOM) and biochar mineralisation was monitored using isotopic methods. A comprehensive modelling approach, describing all mineralisation results over the entire incubation with a reduced set of parameters, was employed to isolate the effects of biochar, pesticides, and their interactions across soil types and carbon pools, and captured the dynamic effect of biochar on SOM mineralisation. Over 99.5% of biochars remained inert after 8 months, confirming the role of biochar as a carbon sequestration technology. Biochar addition showed higher SOM stabilisation potential in soil with high clay content compared to soil with low clay content. This suggests that biochar amendment should be considered carefully in clay-depleted soils, as it could result in a loss of native SOM. Corn stem biochar, characterised by high surface area and low C/N ratio, demonstrated higher SOM stabilisation potential than corncob biochar with low surface area and high C/N ratio. Pesticide application reduced SOM mineralisation by 10% regardless of soil and biochar types. Finally, the interaction between corncob biochar and pesticides further reduced SOM mineralisation by 5%, while no interactive effect was observed with corn stem biochar. These findings highlight the importance of considering biochar-pesticide interactions when evaluating the impact of biochar amendments on native SOM stability.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144300259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can We Derive Climate-Forest-Soil Dependent Proxies for Litter Carbon?","authors":"Mathias Neumann,&nbsp;Edwin Herzberger,&nbsp;Michael Englisch,&nbsp;Hubert Hasenauer","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70135","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Organic soil layers, including litter, fermentation and humus layers depending on humus form, are a large carbon pool in forests. Soil carbon in organic and mineral layers can be quantified using (i) direct field observations using profiles or cores, (ii) pedo-transfer functions using simple-to-measure proxies for soil carbon, or (iii) biogeochemical modelling considering soil carbon input and output. Despite large amounts of soil data available for researchers, there is little knowledge available on suitable proxies and estimation concepts for carbon in soil layers of predominantly organic origin (here called litter carbon), compared to carbon in mineral soil layers. Here, we test models using litter carbon measurements from Austria. We consider forest and site information as well as litter depth measurements as input data in a machine learning approach for covariate selection and fit multivariate models with remaining significant covariates. We validate the developed models versus independent validation data sets. Our results show a clear relationship between litter carbon and litter depth, with the latter being linked to different humus forms. Models using forest and site parameters in addition to litter depth reach explained variation up to +60%, while models solely using forest and site parameters were clearly inferior in estimating litter carbon (&lt; 30% explained variation). Validation with German, Swedish and Austrian data confirms that litter depth, key forest and site parameters (i.e., air temperature, soil pH, share of broadleaves, soil carbon) are needed for predicting litter carbon with bias &lt; 1 tC/ha and root mean square error &lt; 15 tC/ha. A model estimating litter carbon by first estimating litter bulk density and then multiplying litter bulk density with measured litter depth best explained the observed increase in litter carbon of Austrian forests, with lowest bias, plausible results, and 64% explained variation. Measured litter depth is thus a potent proxy for litter carbon without invasive, time-demanding measurements. We discuss potential research topics (including soil fauna, role of pH in litter decay, using large-scale litter depth surveys such as National Forest Inventories) to explore the still large unexplained variation of litter carbon.</p>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejss.70135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soil Properties-Based Targeting of Soil Conditioners for Reduced Phosphorus Loading From Agriculture","authors":"Riikka Keskinen,&nbsp;Helena Soinne,&nbsp;Risto Uusitalo,&nbsp;Petri Ekholm,&nbsp;Timo A. Räsänen,&nbsp;Jaana Uusi-Kämppä,&nbsp;Jenna Bergholm,&nbsp;Johanna Nikama,&nbsp;Jari Hyväluoma","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70143","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Soil conditioning materials, gypsum, structure lime and pulp and paper mill sludges, have emerged as promising means to combat soil losses for protecting waterways. The mechanisms of impact vary between these materials, whereby the selection of the most efficient product depends on the soil type. In this paper, a soil-properties based selection method was developed for these three soil conditioners focusing on water quality impacts, specifically on particle associated phosphorus (P) losses that make the major share of the P transfer to the eutrophied Archipelago Sea. For targeting soil conditioner applications, a risk grading protocol identifying field parcels with the highest emission potential was formulated. The soil features considered in the risk grading were soil P status, aggregate stability, erosion potential, and typical soil management. In assessing the suitability of the individual soil conditioners, the soil properties considered were electrical conductivity (EC), pH, concentrations of exchangeable calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg), soil test P, clay percentage, organic carbon (C) content, and the ratio of clay/C. The method was applied in the Savijoki catchment in Southwest Finland mainly consisting of relatively flat, non-calcareous clay soils low in soil test P and high in clay/C ratios. Phosphorus emission risk in the area was estimated to be moderate though sporadic high-risk areas were identified. The applied selection criteria targeted fibres to 61%, structure lime to 29% and gypsum to 11% of the case study area. High clay/C ratio favoured fibres, whereas gypsum and structure lime were limited to soils with low EC. The proposed method provides means for farmers and advisors to select the most suitable soil conditioner for a given soil. For decision-makers, the method offers an instrument for policy recommendations serving, for example, in directing environmental subsidies. The method is applicable beyond the Archipelago Sea region though the suggested limit values need to be adjusted site-specifically.</p>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejss.70143","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144299861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Open Framework for Downscaling Soil Carbon and Clay Maps Using Sensor Data: Five Case Studies Across Diverse European Landscapes","authors":"Lucas Carvalho Gomes,&nbsp;Anders Bjørn Møller,&nbsp;Triven Koganti,&nbsp;Suzanne Higgins,&nbsp;Gareth Ridgway,&nbsp;Natasha Crumlish,&nbsp;Renaldas Žydelis,&nbsp;Jonas Volungevičius,&nbsp;Ardas Kavaliauskas,&nbsp;Fenny van Egmond,&nbsp;Henk Kramer,&nbsp;Kees Teuling,&nbsp;İsmail Çinkaya,&nbsp;Mogens H. Greve","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70132","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sustainable soil management is recognised as a pivotal solution for addressing current and future global challenges, but existing global and national soil property maps often lack the fine-scale resolution required for local or intra-field assessments. Here, we aimed to develop an open access framework to downscale soil property maps using remote and proximal sensor data and test it for predicting soil organic carbon (SOC) and clay across different regions of Europe. To facilitate the dissemination of this framework, we developed the R package “<i>soilscaler</i>”, which contains integrated functions for producing downscaled soil maps. This approach uses coarse resolution maps as a baseline, incorporating sensor data and soil observations to train a model explaining local variation of soil properties. We tested the framework in Denmark, Northern Ireland, Lithuania, The Netherlands, and Turkey. For comparison, we also created high-resolution maps using a conventional digital soil mapping (DSM) approach for each field independently. We found that the downscaling performance depends on the quality of the coarse-resolution soil maps, the spatial variability of soil properties within a given field, and the range of inter-field variations in each country. Although the downscaling process showed lower performance than the conventional DSM approach, the results indicate that the downscaled maps better represent local variability than existing national and global soil maps. Additionally, we found that remote sensing sensors generally better represent the spatial distribution of SOC, while proximal soil sensors better capture clay contents. Future studies should focus on gathering more sensor data and correlating it with soil properties to improve predictions based solely on sensor data.</p>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejss.70132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144281565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"First Signs That National Cropland Organic Carbon Loss Is Reversing in British Topsoils","authors":"L. Bentley,&nbsp;A. Thomas,&nbsp;A. Garbutt,&nbsp;B. Williams,&nbsp;S. Reinsch,&nbsp;I. Lebron,&nbsp;M. Brentegani,&nbsp;P. Keenan,&nbsp;C. Wood,&nbsp;S. M. Smart,&nbsp;P. A. Henrys,&nbsp;B. J. Cosby,&nbsp;B. A. Emmett,&nbsp;D. A. Robinson","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70131","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High rates of soil organic carbon (SOC) loss from cropland soils are well known, contributing to climate change and compromising soil and ecosystem health. Stabilising and reversing the loss of organic matter from cropland soils is a challenge for all nations to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainable land management (SLM) has been promoted as a mechanism of achieving this, but to date, there is no evidence of positive impacts at scale. Here we show the first signs of the reversal of soil carbon loss in cultivated topsoils in Great Britain, following a period of reported SLM uptake, using 40+ years of national soil monitoring from the UKCEH Countryside Survey. Following a prolonged historic decline at rates of −0.16 t ha⁻¹ year⁻¹, there was a significant increase in cropland topsoil SOC stocks (0–15 cm) from 2007 to 2019–22 with an accrual rate of 0.17 t ha⁻¹ year⁻¹, approximately 0.74 MtC year⁻¹ nationally. We discuss reported management shifts in Great Britain in the corresponding period and identify a reduction in conventional tillage and reduced straw removal as potential drivers, but highlight additional evidence gaps worthy of consideration. This increase in topsoil SOC may represent net carbon sequestration or carbon redistribution (geographic or vertical) but nevertheless demonstrates that topsoil properties can be restored at scale and offers hope that a concerted effort by land managers can halt, and potentially reverse, SOC loss from cropland soils.</p>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejss.70131","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experimental Assessment of Electro-Osmotic Soil-Engaging Tools for Adhesion Reduction","authors":"Mo Li,&nbsp;Zibo Gao,&nbsp;Jiajie Tang,&nbsp;Ke Xu,&nbsp;Li Guo,&nbsp;Qingzhu Zhang,&nbsp;Jiangtao Qi","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70133","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Soil adhesion results in significant power consumption and diminishes the working quality of agricultural production. Identifying an effective solution to mitigate soil adhesion is a critical issue for enhancing the efficiency of agricultural machinery. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness and feasibility of utilizing electro-osmotic techniques for reducing soil adhesion. Pull-out tests were conducted on a plate and a cylinder to examine the impact of the electro-osmosis technique on soil adhesion. Experimental factors such as water content, holding time, voltage, and application duration were considered in this research. The results indicated that soil moisture played a pivotal role in determining adhesion; higher moisture levels resulted in increased adhesion when the soil was within its plastic limit and liquid limit range. Furthermore, it was observed that metal tools experienced significantly greater levels of soil adhesion without applying voltage compared to when voltage was applied; moreover, an increase in voltage magnitude and duration led to a decrease in soil adhesion force. For instance, applying a 24 V voltage for 15 s reduced the soil adhesion force on the plate by 52% compared to that without applying voltage; similarly, applying a 30 V voltage for 40 s decreased the soil adhesion force on the cylinder by 32%. Additionally, after conducting electro-osmosis tests, the soil contact surfaces of the plate and cylinder showed clean contact areas with evident traces of water film formation. These findings validate that utilizing electro-osmotic techniques can effectively mitigate soil adhesion while providing valuable insights into their potential application during field operations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144220395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multistakeholder Engagement to Scale Soil Health Globally: The Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health","authors":"Leigh Ann Winowiecki,&nbsp;Hanna Linden,&nbsp;Sasha Alexander,&nbsp;Aida Bargués Tobella,&nbsp;Joao Campari,&nbsp;Colin Christensen,&nbsp;Dhruphad Choudhury,&nbsp;Henk Van Duijn,&nbsp;Martina Fleckenstein,&nbsp;Yvonne Harz-Pitre,&nbsp;Zakir Hussain,&nbsp;Bharat Kakade,&nbsp;David Kamau,&nbsp;Paul Luu,&nbsp;Christine Magaju,&nbsp;Vincent Makiyi,&nbsp;Pamela Mbabazi,&nbsp;Cristine Morgan,&nbsp;Sieg Snapp,&nbsp;Daniela Solis,&nbsp;Sabrina Trautman,&nbsp;Roland Van der Vorst,&nbsp;Penelope Wensley,&nbsp;Tom Williams,&nbsp;Rattan Lal","doi":"10.1111/ejss.70128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.70128","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Healthy soil is critical for ecosystem restoration, climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity conservation, water cycling, farmer livelihoods, and food and nutrition security. Despite its importance, soil health has often been overlooked, but momentum is growing as evidenced by recent high-level initiatives such as the Nairobi Declaration as part of the Africa Fertiliser and Soil Health Action Plan and the European Union Soil Mission: A Soil Deal for Europe. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration was launched on 5 June 2021 to galvanise local, national and global action to restore degraded ecosystems. In the same year, the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) initiated a call for coalitions of action to champion integrated, systemic approaches to transform food systems. The Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) was launched to bring soil health into focus with participation across sectors and scales to ultimately raise awareness about this critical ecosystem that we depend on, but which is being degraded at unprecedented rates. Since 2021, CA4SH has grown to include nearly 200 members (as of January 2025) representing the public and private sectors, research institutions, non-governmental organisations, farmer organisations and cooperatives, individuals, youth-led organisations, and indigenous organisations to mention some. The initiative has also had a strong focus on gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) in soil and landscape restoration. The Coalition promotes soil as a unifier across a diverse set of stakeholders, building partnerships to overcome critical economic, technical and institutional barriers to the adoption and scaling of healthy soil practices. Furthermore, CA4SH facilitates evidence-based policy and practice action for the scaling of restoration practices that improve soil health. The Private Sector Guiding Group, launched as part of the UNFSS, developed a call to action to support increased investments in healthy soil, and continues to support the actions of the Coalition. Its four working groups focus on communication, soil health monitoring and implementation, policy, and financial investment. In the first three years since its launch, the Coalition has engaged in multinational dialogues and contributed to the adoption of soil health in the outcomes from the UN Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) through the Koronivia joint work on agriculture (now the Sharm El-Sheikh Declaration), the UNFCCC COP28 UAE Declaration on Food Systems and Agriculture, the UNCCD COP16 Riyadh Action Agenda and also launched the Soil Health Resolution. Leveraging on the enabling policy environment, the Coalition catalyses public and private sector action with outcomes for economic returns and growth, productivity and rural livelihoods, climate and nature. The positioning of the Coalition in the current global environmental transition is pivotal to drive the multifaceted benefits that","PeriodicalId":12043,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Soil Science","volume":"76 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ejss.70128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}