Part I: Enabling Environment for an Effective Implementation of Soil Governance in Africa: Challenges to Soil Protection and Sustainable Management in Africa by Francis Marthy Tetteh.- Local Agricultural Intensification Practices and Soil Degradation in Momo Division, North West Cameroon by Tassah Ivo Tawe.- Persistent Organic Pollutants and Soil Protection: National and Global Imperatives by Patricia Kameri-Mbote.- Prospects and Challenges for Soil Protection Law in Zambia by Pamela Towela Sambo.- Combatting Desertification through Soil and Water Conservation and Environmental Rehabilitation Measures: Experiences from the Tigray Region, Ethiopia by Kelemework Tafere Reda and Desta Gebremichael Gidey.- Indigenous Knowledge and Soil Protection: Anthropological Remarks on Experience in Namibia by Manfred O. Hinz.- Land Rights, Land Use Patterns and Soil Fertility Significantly Contribute to the Two-decade Long Regional Conflagration in Eastern Congo by Bila-Isia Inogwabini.- Workshop "Implementing Land Degradation Neutrality in Africa: Means, Legal Instruments and Institutional Challenges?" - Outcome Document by Harald Ginzky, Oliver Ruppel, Robert Kibugi and Walter Engelberg.- Part II: Recent International Developments: The Future of International Soil Governance by Ralph Bodle, Heidi Stockhaus, Franziska Wolff and Sebastian Oberthür.- Critique of the Report "Improving International Soil Governance: Analysis and Recommendations" by Robert Fowler and Ian Hannam.- The Global Soil Partnership: Tackling Global Soil Threats Through Collective Action by Natalia Rodriguez Eugenio.- Part III: Regional/National Reports: Soil Law in Mexico by José Juan González Márquez and Ana Maria Pacheco Ruiz.- Brumadinho's Disaster, Mine Tailing Dams and the Environmental Licencing in Brazil: Preventing Risks to Human Wellbeing, Soils, and the Environment by Paula Galbiatti Silveira, Marina Demaria Venâcio and José Rubens Morato Leite.- The Healthy Soil Program by Danika Desai.- Soil Protection Governance in Germany by Harald Ginzky.- The EU Common Agricultural Policy and its Contribution to the Protection and Sustainable Use of Soils: New Approaches for the Period 2021-2027 by Markus Raffelsiefen.- Part IV: Cross-cutting Issues: Perceptions of Soil in Catholic Theology by Markus Vogt.- The UN-Habitat Urban-Rural Linkages Guiding Principles - Assessment of the Adoptability to Topical Land Management Challenges in Germany, Kenya and Tanzania by Stephan Bartke et al.- Aspects of a Legislative and Policy Framework to Manage Soil Carbon Sequestration by Ian Hannam.