An inch of nutrient-rich topsoil, so integral to productive agricultural land, can take hundreds of years to develop. But it takes far less time to become dried out and potentially eroded as a result of drought. Healthy soil is critical for global food security as well as the thousands of species that call it home. A mixture of mineral and organic waste that teems with minute life, soil is complex matter . Soil is easy to overlook but is vital to our survival. How do we protect soil during drought ?

