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Rapidly increasing global human population has led to the intensive land use change, and the over exploitation of soil resources resulting in the diminished soil health, ecosystem services, and human well-being. Depriving nutrients from the soil systems due unsustainable practices has further led to low productivity and quality of the crop yields. As a result, it led to the scarcity of the food with limiting nutrients reflecting various nutrient deficiencies and human health disorders. Therefore, it is the need of the hour to restore the health of our soil resources for improving the food and nutrition secuirty of present as well as future generations. In this backdrop, the present chapter is aimed to discuss the drivers of soil degradation, highlight the impact of soil degradation on human health and suggests various adaptive practices to maintain the soil health while improving the quality of crop yield for environmental sustainability and human health.
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Edrisi, S.A. et al. (2021). Managing Soil Resources for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability. In: Rakshit, A., Singh, S., Abhilash, P., Biswas, A. (eds) Soil Science: Fundamentals to Recent Advances. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0917-6_1
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