17.Decades of overgrazing, climate change-induced droughts, and poor farming practices are stripping not only the Sudanian grasslands of their once fertile topsoil but hundreds of other regions like it across the world.
18.And Jackson knows that the way that most crops are grown around the world today is stripping the earth of the fertile topsoil we need to feed future generations.
19.(professor) Good, not only plants, microorganisms, fungi, and later on, animals like worms, all helped build up a layer of topsoil on the land, which, of course, encouraged more plant life.
20.He got together with a group of scientists, and they bred perennial grain crops which have deep roots that anchor the fertile topsoil of a farm, preventing erosion and protecting future harvests.