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The Soils of Egypt

Part of the book series: World Soils Book Series ((WSBS))

Abstract

Soil has a great and holy position worldwide. This position has been acquired from the importance of soil in saving food, feed, fuel, and fibre for animals and humans. Egypt was and still one of the most important countries, which soils played a crucial role in the Egyptian civilization. Therefore, very strong link between soils and humans has been reported based on the great roles of soils in plant and human nutrition. On the other hand, there are several anthropogenic activities, which cause many problems for soils such as pollution, degradation, and erosion. There are direct and/or indirect effects of soils on human health as well as plants. Therefore, this chapter is an attempt to emphasize the great roles of soils in plant and human health as well as the security of soils under pollution conditions.

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The authors thank the outstanding contributions of STDF research teams (Science and Technology Development Fund, Egypt) and MBMF/DLR (the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany), (Project ID 5310) for their help. Support from the German-Egyptian Research Fund (GERF) is gratefully acknowledged.

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El-Ramady, H., Alshaal, T., Elsakhawy, T., Omara, A.ED., Abdalla, N., Brevik, E.C. (2019). Soils and Humans. In: El-Ramady, H., Alshaal, T., Bakr, N., Elbana, T., Mohamed, E., Belal, AA. (eds) The Soils of Egypt. World Soils Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95516-2_12

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