Global map of soil moisture regimes. Developed by USDA-NRCS, Soil Survey Division, World Soil Resources, Washington, DC.

At 450 sampling locations spanning 21 million crop acres, it’s the world’s largest soil archive ... state collection USDA used to derive the soil maps we use today,” he says.

The soils map drove the political map ... prisoners trying to escape a prisoner of war camp during the Second World War — as depicted in the famous film The Great Escape. The camp was built ...

But human activity is destroying the balance and one-third of the world’s soil is already degraded. Soil is fundamental to all life on earth. It filters our water and grows our crops.

Presently, Ghana is the world's second largest producer of cocoa ... site-specific soil data with traditional soil data products (e.g., regional-to-global soil maps) to provide location-specific soil ...