# Soil Degradation and the Transition to Agroecology

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117442608280543699
- Source account: [@EmmaRincon](https://x.com/EmmaRincon)
- Source language: Spanish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:13
- Published: 2026-11-03
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/133cOvyT3dHW/en/soil-degradation-and-the-transition-to-agroecology) Taking advantage of this topic of soils.

[0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/133cOvyT3dHW/en/soil-degradation-and-the-transition-to-agroecology?t=2) We have to start taking steps to change the culture of treatment, to gradually change the culture, to transition to a new model of agroecology, to become aware of this, because soils look, there is a soil crisis in the world. One billion six hundred million hectares are degraded worldwide, and sixty percent of those one billion

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/133cOvyT3dHW/en/soil-degradation-and-the-transition-to-agroecology?t=30) six hundred million are agricultural, suitable for agriculture. Why?

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/133cOvyT3dHW/en/soil-degradation-and-the-transition-to-agroecology?t=34) Because of poor practices, human intervention, various factors, the, the issue of chemicals, the issue of mining, too, and various factors.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/133cOvyT3dHW/en/soil-degradation-and-the-transition-to-agroecology?t=45) But we have to start taking care of our soils, because soils become degraded, lose their microbiota, lose their, their substances organic matter, its, its minerals, that make them productive.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/133cOvyT3dHW/en/soil-degradation-and-the-transition-to-agroecology?t=56) So, well, we have to think about the future, because we are, okay, using the land to grow food, to feed ourselves, but we have to think about future generations, leave them their soil with the ability to produce