CAUSES OF SOIL EROSION
Every five seconds we lose a football field of the most fertile topsoil to soil erosion. Numerous studies have shown that climate change significantly increases the risk of soil loss. In recent decades, extreme weather events such as thunderstorms, heavy rainfall, droughts, and heat waves have become more frequent. Combined with the growing world population and the ever-increasing demand for food production and land use changes (e.g. deforestation, intensification of agriculture, and increasing agricultural use in third world countries), the risk of severe soil erosion is greater than ever.