Soil Conservation
IN THIS LESSON
Retaining soil by mitigating the risk of erosion.
Soil conservation aims to retain soil by mitigating the risk of erosion and retaining fertility by avoiding harmful practices such as slash and burn agriculture and monoculture (growing a single crop instead of a variety in one place). Where there is a lack of soil conservation, the result is typically accelerated soil erosion, loss of nutrients in the soil, even desertification. Soil conservation practices include conservation tillage, crop rotation, composting, controlled grazing, conservation buffers, composting, fertilising with manure, and planting windbreaks.