Resilient and Innovative Agriculture

The agricultural community faces the monumental task of feeding an additional 2 billion people by 2050, while also combating climate change and ensuring food security. \

The agricultural community is facing the biggest challenge of our time. As the global population exceeds 7.5 billion, and is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, an additional 2 billion mouths will need to be fed with no more than the existing farmland. Meanwhile, largely due to climate change, about 12 million hectares of land are becoming degraded each year, and the increasing frequency and intensity of droughts and floods add to the challenge of maintaining food security for the growing population.

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By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality

Regenerative Agriculture and Soil Health

Soil is a natural resource with unique biological, chemical, and physical characteristics that must be continuously monitored and managed. However, the use of intensive agricultural practices depleted much of the Earth’s arable soils. The result is a decrease in soil fertility.

ICL’s agronomy team is working to develop fertilization techniques and agricultural practices that will be aligned with the soil health agenda. This includes research on how to increase the soil organic carbon content and the biodiversity of soil biota. This means a significant change in the growing methods of many farmers, and our agronomists are prepared to support them during this journey.

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

H2Flo

As climate change is already causing water scarcity in many regions of the world, water preservation methods are vital to the future of mankind. ICL has developed a line of products designed for water use efficiency. H2Flo, is a special blend of soil surfactants designed to help irrigation water go further and result in water use efficiency. H2Flo prevents water repellent deposits from hardening and is especially ideal in light soils.

Applying with Precision - Nutrients via Water

As climate change results in hotter and drier weather patterns, ICL, in collaboration with Lancaster University, is researching the possibilities and opportunities of its H2Flo products.

The aim of the research is to test the effects of wetting agents on plant physiology.

This will not only have an impact on the turf industry, but also on the challenge of global warming and food security.” Vasileios Giannakopoulos, PhD researcher at Lancaster University

Resilient and Innovative Agriculture

Regenerative Agriculture and Soil Health

H2Flo

Applying with Precision - Nutrients via Water

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