Soil and Drought

Rattan Lal, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Professor and Director of the CFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration, The Ohio State University, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iceland and IARI, New Delhi. He was President of the WASWAC (1987-1990), ISTRO (1988-1991), SSSA (2006-2008), and the IUSS (2017-2018). He researches soil C sequestration, conservation agriculture, soil health, soil erosion and C dynamics, soil structure, eco-intensification, soil restoration, and soils of the tropics. He has authored 2885 journal articles, authored/edited more than 100 books, mentored 390 researchers, has h-index of 172, and total citations of 129,861. In a Stanford study (Ioannidis et al. 2019, 2020), he is ranked #111 globally among world’s top 2% of scientists and #1 among scientists in Agronomy & Agriculture. Reuter Thompson ranked him #391 among the top 1000 climatologists. He holds IICA’s Chair in Soil Science and Goodwill Ambassador in Sustainable Development. He is a member of the 2021 U.N. Food System Summit Science Committee, Action Track 3 and Coalition 4 Soil Health. He received the 2018 GCHERA World Agriculture Prize, 2018 Glinka World Soil Prize, 2019 Japan Prize, 2019 IFFCO Award, 2020 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award, the 2020 World Food Prize, and the 2021 Padma Shri Award, India.

• 1. Drought Hazard to Dryland Farming in Arid Regiom2. Soil water conservation for dryland farming3. Distinctive dryland soil carbon transformations: insights from arid rangelands of SW United States4. Crop nutrition management for semi-arid areas of Sub-Saharan Africa with increasingly variable climate5. Soil-Plant-Water-Environment interaction in dryland agriculture6. Managing Soil and Water resources by tillage crop rotation and cover cropping7. Managing drought stress in agro-ecosystems of Latin America and the Caribbean region8. Managing soil drought in agro-ecosystems of North China Plains9. Physiological mechanisms for improving crop water use efficiency in the U.S. Southern Great Plains10. Improving Water Storage through Effective Soil Organic Matter Management Strategies under Dryland Farming in India11. Ancient Infrastructure offers Sustainable Agricultural Solutions to Dryland Farming