“Food and energy security, water availability and quality, and climate change adaptation and mitigation are some of the greatest challenges facing our society,” says Chuck Rice, President of the Soil Science Society of America and a distinguished professor of soil microbiology at Kansas State, “Appropriate management of soils offers the potential to provide solutions for each of these challenges. Soils also provide a direct link to human health as a source of antibiotics and other medical products.”
The research priorities include better understanding the role of soils in improving human and ecosystem health as well as addressing food and energy security and climate change challenges. Read the research priorities here.
