Greenlandic Glacier Flour Improves African Farming

Recent research shows that glacier flour has a decidedly positive effect on harvest and may contribute to solving some of the challenges with climate crisis and biodiversity, Sermitsiaq writes.

Professor Minik Rosing is the architect behind a three-year research project in which he and cooperation partners have investigated the capacities of glacial flour and conducted farming tests. The tests show that harvest increases significantly when glacial flour is added to the soil, and the effect lasts through several growth seasons.

There is enough glacial flour in one single lake by the Nuuk Fjord to improve the nutritional value of the soil in all markets south of Sahara in Africa, scientists claim.