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{"title":"Evaluation of soil quality under oil palm cultivation in a coastal plain sands area of Akwa Ibom State Nigeria","authors":"E.D. Chukwu ,&nbsp;B.T. Udoh ,&nbsp;A.I. Afangide ,&nbsp;A.F. Osisi","doi":"10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100087","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is paucity of quantitative scientific information of the potential of crop plants to improve soil quality in the coastal plain sands area, which can contribute to optimum crop productivity. Accordingly, the study evaluated the influence of oil palm cultivation on soil quality in a coastal plain sands area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Four oil palm blocks of varying ages: 57 years (B-57), 39 years (B-39), 17 years (B-17) and a no oil palm block (B-0), which served as the control was used for the study. A total of 12 pits were dug. The soils were described according to horizon designation as observed in the soil profile, sampled at both dry and wet seasons, air dried, sieved and taken to the laboratory for analysis. The data obtained were subjected to laboratory analysis. The soil quality evaluation using principal component analysis method, showed that oil palm improved the soil quality in the dry season with the best quality in B-17 (2.34) followed by B-57 (2.14), B-0 (2.0) and B-39 (1.85). After initial improvement in soil quality by oil palm plantation, up to 17 years of age, the soil quality degraded as the oil palm advanced in age up to 39 years, before it improved again such that soil quality was better at 57 years than when it was assessed at 39 years. Irrespective of the age of oil palm plantation, soil quality was degraded by the wet season. The trend (for wet season) was as follows: B-39 &gt;<em>B</em>-17 &gt;<em>B</em>-57= B<em>-</em>0. The study has revealed that oil palm cultivation can serve as a good soil management and conservation practice in the coastal plain sands area, since it has the potential of improving soil quality (physical, chemical and biological) the longer it stays on the soil.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74839,"journal":{"name":"Soil security","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100087"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44698384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A proposal for the assessment of soil security: Soil functions, soil services and threats to soil","authors":"Sandra J. Evangelista,&nbsp;Damien J. Field,&nbsp;Alex B. McBratney,&nbsp;Budiman Minasny,&nbsp;Wartini Ng,&nbsp;José Padarian,&nbsp;Mercedes Román Dobarco,&nbsp;Alexandre M.J.-C. Wadoux","doi":"10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Human societies face six existential challenges to their sustainable development. These challenges have been previously addressed by a myriad of concepts such as soil conservation, soil quality, and soil health. Yet, of these, only soil security attempts to integrate the six existential challenges concurrently through the five biophysical and socio-economic dimensions of capacity, condition, capital, connectivity and codification. In this paper, we highlight past and existing concepts, and make a proposal for a provisional assessment of soil security. The proposal addresses three roles of soil: soil functions, soil services and threats to soil. For each identified role, we indicate a potential, but not exhaustive, list of indicators that characterise the five dimensions of soil security. We also raise issues of quantification and combination of indicators briefly. We found that capacity and condition are theoretically easier to measure and quantify than connectivity and codification. The dimension capital might be conveniently assessed using indicators that relate to the economic value of soils. The next step is to test this proposal for which we make recommendations on potential study cases and examples. We conclude that the five dimensions of soil security can potentially be assessed quantitatively and comprehensively using indicators that characterise each role, but also found that there is need for further work to devise an operational measurement methodology to estimate connectivity of people to soil.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74839,"journal":{"name":"Soil security","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100086"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49753684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Participatory approaches for soil research and management: A literature-based synthesis","authors":"Alexandre M.J.-C. Wadoux,&nbsp;Alex B. McBratney","doi":"10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Participatory approaches to data gathering and research which involve farmers, laypeople, amateur soil scientists, concerned community members or school students have attracted much attention recently, not only to enable scientific progress but also to achieve social and educational outcomes. Non-expert participation in soil research and management is diverse and applied variously, ranging from data collection to inform large-scale monitoring schemes in citizen science projects to projects in which the participants define the object of study and the questions to be answered. The growth of participatory projects to tackle complex environmental and soil-related issues has generated literature that describes both the way the projects are initiated, implemented and the outcomes they achieve. We review the existing literature on participatory soil research and management. Existing studies are classified into three categories based on the degree of participation in the different phases of research. The quality of participation is further evaluated systematically through the five elements that participatory projects usually include: inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and impacts. We found that the majority of existing participatory projects were contributory in nature, where participants contribute to generating data. Co-created projects which involve a greater level of participation are less frequent. We also found large disparities in the context in which these types of participation occurred: contributory projects were mostly documented in more economically developed countries, whereas projects that suggest greater involvement of participants were mostly formulated in developing countries in relation to soil management and conservation issues. The long-term sustained outcomes of participatory projects on human well-being and socio-ecological systems are seldom reported. We conclude that participatory approaches are opportunities for education, communication and scientific progress and that participation is being facilitated by digital convergence. Participatory projects should, however, also be evaluated in terms of their long-term impact on the participants, to be sure that the expectations of the various parties align with the outcomes. All in all, such participation adds to the quantum of soil connectivity and in this sense makes the soil more secure globally.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74839,"journal":{"name":"Soil security","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100085"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49753941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of three land evaluation systems in capability assessment of soils of coastal plains sand in Southeastern Nigeria","authors":"E.P. Ukaegbu ,&nbsp;C.M. Jidere ,&nbsp;S.K. Osuaku ,&nbsp;S.E. Obalum","doi":"10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Land evaluation systems vary in approach and have not always produced good results outside regions where they were originally conceived. To test the extent of their agreement, Land Capability Classification (LCC), Fertility Capability Classification (FCC), and Suitability Rating were combined in physically evaluating soils of Coastal plains sand, Imo State, Nigeria, using data from 20 pedons. With respect to LCC, soils of inland valleys were limited mainly by wetness, which had 2 out of 6 profiles of the unit classified beyond the arable. The well-drained upland soils, all of which fell within the arable classes, were subject to sheet and rill erosion. By standards of FCC, soils were limited by ‘g’ - water logging; e - low ability to retain nutrients; i - potential fe - toxicity; k - low nutrient capital reserves. Based on suitability rating, soils potentials for agriculture varied from poor to good. Results of LCC and FCC correlated significantly (r = 0.771), but none of these correlated with suitability ratings of the soils. Use of the international systems should be augmented with further soil tests some of which may be got from other comparable systems so as to capture other locally important environmental details. Subjecting factors identified by FCC to suitability rating improved evaluation procedure. Land use in the location did not strictly consider the capability of the land. Cultivating rice to the wet soils or draining them, contour cultivation on slopes, adequate fertilization of soils are recommendations to improve land management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74839,"journal":{"name":"Soil security","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100079"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41766119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A minimum suite of soil health indicators for North American agriculture","authors":"Dianna K. Bagnall ,&nbsp;Elizabeth L. Rieke ,&nbsp;Cristine L.S. Morgan,&nbsp;Daniel L. Liptzin,&nbsp;Shannon B. Cappellazzi,&nbsp;C. Wayne Honeycutt","doi":"10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The concept of soil health is appropriately receiving increased attention from governments, producers, corporations, and other stakeholders because of the many functions of soil that support ecosystem services and farm profitability. With this interest, there is growing need to verify and monitor changes in soil health that result from how agricultural soil is managed. There are many indicators of soil health and, although this benefits the scientific community, it complicates interpretation across studies. The North American Project to Evaluate Soil Health Measurements (NAPESHM) assessed over 30 available measurements on 124 long-term agricultural research sites with replicated soil health treatments and created new pedotransfer functions. This analysis draws on findings from NAPESHM to identify a minimum suite of effective indicators of soil health for the North American Continent. The criteria for a minimum suite of effective indicators are that they (1) primarily reflect soil health rather than inherent soil properties or fertility, (2) are responsive to agricultural management practices that exemplify soil health principles, (3) are conducive to measuring soil health at scale in terms of cost and availability, and (4) are not redundant with regard to linking different soil functions to ecosystem services. Many indicators were determined effective for use in soil health studies and based on this analysis, soil organic C concentration, aggregate stability, and 24 h C mineralization potential were selected for the minimum suite of indicators. Using this minimum suite, as few as three laboratory measurements can be made to assess and track improvement in soil functioning as a result of soil management changes. These indicators may be supplemented with new pedotransfer functions to also estimate changes in available water holding capacity. This minimal suite of soil health measurements is recommended for scaling up soil health assessments across North America, and possibly beyond.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74839,"journal":{"name":"Soil security","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100084"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49754153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bringing soils to life in the human and social sciences","authors":"Céline Granjou ,&nbsp;Germain Meulemans","doi":"10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite their key importance for ecosystems and societies, soils have long remained a peripheral topic in the human and social sciences. Our paper aims to account for the recent, fast-growing literature in human and social sciences on soils. We first highlight social sciences’ shared concern for unsettling common visions of soil as a surface, a background or a taken for granted stock of resources; then we show that the works at stake differ in terms of: (i) their linkage with soil science disciplines and fields, (ii) the social science theories they mobilise, (iii) their main contributions, and (iv) their approach to soil materialities and agencies. Following these criteria, we present three strands of research on soil-related issues: (1) Literature bearing on the politics of soil knowledge investigates how soil becomes an object of knowledge and management; (2) Soil new materialism addresses practices and ethics of caring for the living soil; (3) Soil decolonial studies unravel soils’ powers and the intertwined agencies of soils and societies. By examining these research agendas, we suggest that social and human thinkers have, in the past two decades, tended to shift from a focus on the socially constructed nature of soils, to a growing emphasis on soils’ own biophysical agency in shaping societies, also in line with soil sciences insights and works. We argue that the increasing uptake of soil in human and social sciences contributes to an increasing concern for achieving better theoretical and empirical accounts of the co-constitution of society and the material world.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74839,"journal":{"name":"Soil security","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100082"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41342958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the risk perception of soil degradation using a college student sample","authors":"R. Kay Kastner-Wilcox ,&nbsp;Sabine Grunwald ,&nbsp;Monika Ardelt ,&nbsp;Stefan Gerber ,&nbsp;Tracy Irani","doi":"10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores the social-psychological dimensions of risk perception to soil degradation using a structural equation model that integrates knowledge, emotion (affect), experience, values, and social norms. The survey and resulting model were created through the adaption of a survey developed and empirically tested to assess climate change risk perception. The model was tested on a sample of college students (<em>n</em> = 513). Results indicate that our model explains nearly two-thirds (63%) of the variance in risk perception of soil degradation, with knowledge accounting for a substantial portion of the variance both directly to risk perception and as mediated by affect. Experience and social norms were also significant predictors of risk perception, while values, gender and political affiliation exhibited no significant predictor value for risk perception.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74839,"journal":{"name":"Soil security","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100083"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49766199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Minimum Suite of Soil Health Indicators for North America","authors":"D. Bagnall, E. Rieke, C. Morgan, D. Liptzin, S. Cappellazzi, C. Honeycutt","doi":"10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74839,"journal":{"name":"Soil security","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46239734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Participatory approaches for soil research and management: A literature-based synthesis","authors":"A. Wadoux, A. McBratney","doi":"10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74839,"journal":{"name":"Soil security","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55165459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soil health benefits from sequence intensification, fertilization, and no-tillage in annual cropping systems","authors":"Valentina Rubio ,&nbsp;Jorge Sawchik ,&nbsp;Harold van Es","doi":"10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100074","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The expansion of annual cropping systems and associated land cover changes may induce soil degradation, compromising the soil's ability to function and provide ecosystem services, also referred to as soil health (SH). Conservation practices may reduce SH decline, yet their benefits are uncertain. The main objectives of this paper were to apply a comprehensive SH assessment framework to evaluate (i) SH differences in natural grasslands and cropping areas, and (ii) how conservation practices lessen SH deterioration. Soils under natural grasslands were compared to cropped soils from three long-term experiments with treatments evaluating the effects of cover crops and/or pastures incorporation; no-tillage; and crop fertilization for Uruguayan Mollisols. Soil chemical (pH, cation exchange capacity, macro, and micro-nutrients), physical (wet aggregate stability, available water holding capacity, penetration resistance), and biological (organic carbon, active carbon, protein, respiration) indicators were measured. SH was significantly lower across all indicators under cropped areas than under natural grasslands, especially when soil fertility is not adequately maintained in cropping systems. Conservation practices lessened SH degradation, particularly soil biological properties, but had confounding benefits. Overall, gains in SH were linked to adequate soil fertility maintenance and longer active plant growth periods associated with including pastures and cover crops in annual cropping systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74839,"journal":{"name":"Soil security","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100074"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667006222000405/pdfft?md5=b9550a1a7f9f169e9569d610e13c76ec&pid=1-s2.0-S2667006222000405-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48847414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}