Soil quality standards protect and improve soil health, crucial for agriculture, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration. They guide sustainable land use and soil management practices.

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New standard to tackle land degradation

We live in a world where growing populations, over-development and ever-changing climate patterns are taking a daily toll on the land around us. Droughts, floods, over-cultivation, deforestation, the draining of water supplies, and unsustainable practices in general, are literally pillaging our earth. A new standard aiming to help combat that has just reached a crucial stage.

Top standards

Standard
ISO 11277:2020
Soil quality
Determination of particle size distribution in mineral soil material

Method by sieving and sedimentation

Standard
ISO 18400-104:2018
Soil quality
Sampling

Part 104: Strategies

Standard
ISO 11268-2:2023
Soil quality
Effects of pollutants on earthworms

Part 2: Determination of effects on reproduction of Eisenia fetida/Eisenia andrei and other earthworm species