SOIL HEALTH & ECOLOGY 
In Alphabetical Order by Section/Title

GENERAL RESOURCES

2015: The International Year of Soils -- Launched 05 Dec 2014 
See Also: Global Soil Partnership  

Status of the World's Soil Resources (Summary) 
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations -- 2015
See Full Report 

World Soil Charter (Revised) 
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations -- Adopted 08 Jun 2015 

BOOKS, ARTICLES AND REPORTS

60 Years of Farmable Soil Left 
Ecology Action (Excerpt from a 05 Dec 2014 Scientific American article by Chris Arsenault) 

A Glimpse Below: The Soil Food Web [slide show] 
Dr. Teri C. Balser, University of Florida -- 2006 

Assessing Soil Quality in Organic Agriculture 
Alan J. Franzlubbers and Richard L. Haney, USDA Agricultural Resource Service, The Organic Center -- Oct 2006 

Earth Matters: How Soil Underlies Civilization 
Richard Bardgett, Oxford University Press -- 2016 

Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up 
Daphne Miller, MD, William Morrow Publications -- 2013 

Fourteen years of evidence for positive effects of conservation agriculture and organic farming on soil life 
Ludovic Henneron et al., Agronomy for Sustainable Development, Volume 35, Issue 1, pp 169-181 -- Jan 2015 

How Industrial Ag is Making the Soil -- and Us -- Unhealthy 
Hannah Bewsey and Katherine Paul, Organic Consumers Association -- 11 Sep 2014 

Ploughing on Regardless: We’re treating soil like dirt.  It’s a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it
George Monbiot, The Guardian -- 25 Mar 2015 

Soil and human security in the 21st century 
Ronald Amundson, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Jan W. Hopmans, Carolyn Olson, A. Ester Sztein, Donald L. Sparks, SCIENCE (published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science): Vol. 348 no. 6235  DOI: 10.1126/science.1261071 -- 08 May 2015 

Soil Atlas: Facts and Figures about Earth, Land and Fields
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Published in Berlin -- 2015 

Soil Biology Primer 
Elaine R. Ingham, Andrew R. Moldenke, Clive A. Edwards, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA -- 2000   

Soil Carbon Restoration: Can Biology Do the Job 
Jack Kittredge, Northeast Organic Farming Association/Massachusetts Chapter -- 14 Aug 2015 

Soil Microbiome Is More Heterogeneous in Organic Than in Conventional Farming System 
Manoeli Lupatini et al, Frontiers in Microbiology -- 04 Jan 2017

Soils for Life 
Farming Matters Magazine, published by the Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture -- Mar 2015

Teaming With Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Food Web
Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis, Timber Press -- 2010 (Seventh printing 2014) 

Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener's Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition 
Jeff Lowenfels, Timber Press -- 2013 (Second Printing 2014) 

The Biology of Soil: A Community and Ecosystem Approach
Richard Bardgett, Oxford University Press -- 2005

The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture
Sir Albert Howard, University of Kentucky Press -- 2007 (First published in the UK, 1947)

FILMS, VIDEOS & VISUALS

Black Gold: The Secrets of Compost
GardenAfrica -- 2013 

Dirt! The Movie: A Story with Heart and Soil 
Film by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow, Common Ground Media -- 2009 

Farmacology [videotaped talk]
Idea Festival, Louisville, KY -- Sep 2013 

Soil: Our Climate Ally Underfoot
Center for Food Safety -- 23 Sep 2013 

Soil Infographic 
Global Soil Partnership, UN Food & Agricultural Organization -- 2014 

Soil to Sky: Agroecology vs. Industrial Agriculture [Inforgraphic]
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology (UK), reproduced with permission of the Christensen Fund -- 2011 

 Symphony of the Soil 
Film by Deborah Koons Garcia -- 2012, 103 minutes 

​Unlock the Secrets of the Soil [US Dept. of Agriculture Public Service Announcement]
Dr. Laura Danly, Astronomer, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA -- 03 Dec 2015 

WEBSITES

Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative  

​Save Our Soils  

Soil Association  

Soil Foodweb Institute

Soil Food Web: Soil Health Laboratory Services for Organic Growers, and Information on Sustainable Agriculture 
Homepage of Dr. Elaine Ingham and Soil Foodweb, Inc.