Effectiveness of Cover Crops against soil loss of organic matter

 Cover crops have become one strategy to help reduce erosion of topsoil, as well as maintain the level of organic matter and nutrients within the topsoil. Since 95% of the world's food crops grown in topsoil, this is a vital resource that needs to be maintained and treasured around the world, especially with negative effects on some of our best farming topsoil due to accelerating climate change. Here is one example of a summary about the effectiveness of cover crops. 

This is one example of what a cover crop looks like:

Summary of effects of climate change on hunger around the world: Present and predicted

 Check out the Global Hunger Index article on global climate change and its effects on food growth and hunger around the world. With some 820 million people dealing with hunger, 149 million children stunted due to undernourishment, and 2 billion people with deficiencies in one or more micronutrients as of 2019, things are expected to get worse since crops are stressed in more regions around the world, topsoil in some farmland areas are becoming less productive and depleted of nutrients, and more areas are stressed with declining fresh water supplies (including the American west and southwest). 

Mixing trees and farm crops can be beneficial for farmers and climate

 A Science News article that features a farmer in Kenya explains how planting rows of trees in between rows of normal crops helps the crops because it helps the soil retain moisture and nutrients (due to the trees' vast root systems), so the normal crops can grow even during the dry season or droughts. And if one plants fruit trees, it adds to the food yield of the farmland while keeping the soil healthier. 

Of course, trees are the main natural carbon sink of our planet, and more trees can only help in our fight against climate change. This photo presents the concept in France. 

Freerice.com - learn a bit while helping to feed the world!

 If you are not aware of freerice.com, check it out. It is a site where you can answer questions in a number of different subject areas and fields of study, and for every correct answer have 10 grains of rice donated to regions of the world suffering hunger. 

This is a UN World Food Program (winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize) sponsored site, and hundreds of billions of grains of rice have been distributed.