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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Muskan Singh

Between 2001 and 2019, satellites watched 250,000 farming areas across the world, revealing how government payments, crop rules and conservation measures can slowly restore degraded cropland and strengthen food security

Healthy farmland is essential for producing food, but soils around the world are under pressure from intensive farming, climate change and biodiversity loss. A new study from the University of Bonn suggests that government policies can make a measurable difference.

Researchers examined changes across millions of satellite pixels and found that financial incentives, land-management rules and conservation measures can help improve cropland quality.

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