Around the question

Why do soils cultivate us as much as we cultivate them?

Audio 48:30

The march of Gaia © odile Jacob

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

How to share the history of the Earth, of Gaia?

This complex self-organized ecosystem that gave birth to and evolved life.

Geochemist Daniel Nahon sends us back to earth, to clay and clay, which have shaped life. Why do soils nurture us as much as we nurture them?

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Revisits the entire history of our planet, its formation, the appearance of life and the evolution of all forms of life, starting from the soil that made them emerge ...The importance of soils and in particular clay in 

 to use the title of the latest work by Daniel Nahon, humanist geologist, great specialist in tropical soils, who shares with us the essential, ancestral and fragile links between the soils, the climate and the destiny of humanity, necessarily interdependent...

With 

Professor Emeritus of Aix-Marseille University and Honorary Professor of the Institut Universitaire de France, former President of CIRAD, specialist in the soils of hot countries, for his book 

published by Odile Jacob.

His novel Nothing but a grimace in world affairs has just been published by Editions Parole.

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