The breakdown of plant material fuels soil functioning and biodiversity. Currently, process understanding of global decomposition patterns and the drivers of such patterns are hampered by the lack of coherent large-scale datasets. The authors buried 36,000 individual litterbags (tea bags) worldwide and found an overall negative correlation between initial mass-loss rates and stabilization factors of plant-derived carbon, using the Tea Bag Index (TBI). Learn more.

In a recent study CDE document less discussed side of the soy sector in Brazil. Learn more about how the soy sector turns local food systems upside down – and jeopardizes local access to sufficient healthy food in the recently published story.

The Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability will position itself as one of the leading research and policy hubs in Europe dedicated to integrated (nature positive and socially equitable) sustainability.