Boosting smallholder resilience for recovery

Restoring soil health and productivity for safe, nutritious and resilient agrifood systems

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This action sheet is part of a series of tools developed under the seven key priority areas of FAO's COVID-19 Response and Recovery programme, the FAO umbrella programme designed to proactively address the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic. Each action sheet includes a project proposal in support of countries most in need for which FAO is leveraging high-level political, financial, and technical expertise. All action sheets are gathered on the Food Coalition web hub, where members of the Coalition - a multi-stakeholder global alliance for a unified global action in response to COVID-19 - can easily access the action sheet project-focused information and data as well as the funding gaps on the ground, the type of assistance that would be required and decide how they wish to contribute: through voluntary contributions, the provision of expertise, innovative solutions and an exchange of knowledge and experience.

See the full list of policy briefs related to COVID-19.

In order to strengthen the analytical capacity of soil laboratories worldwide, GLOSOLAN is organizing a series of training sessions. The first series focusses on soil spectroscopy to help countries to understand soil conditions, improve agricultural productivity and reverse land degradation.

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu says healthy soils are crucial for sustainable agri-food systems

 Halt soil salinization, boost soil productivity!

20 - 22 Oct 2021 | Virtual format | Time: 13.00-16.00 CEST 

The Global Symposium on Salt-affected Soils (GSAS21) “Halt soil salinization, boost soil productivity” will be held in a virtual format from 20 to 22 October 2021. This science-policy meeting is organized by FAO’s Global Soil Partnership (GSP), the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS), together with the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Science Policy Interface of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (SPI-UNCCD), the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), the International Center on Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), the International Network of Salt-Affected Soils (INSAS), and the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG).

The main objectives of the Symposium are to share knowledge on salinity prevention, management, and adaptation and to establish critical connections between science, practice, and policy by facilitating discussion among policy makers, food producers, scientists, and practitioners for sustainable management of salt-affected soils.

The registration to the Symposium is open.

The official GSAS21 website in the six FAO official languages is online:

Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish

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30 July, town of Novoivanovskoye, Odintsovo district, Moscow Oblast – Nemchinovka Federal Research Centre hosted a research-to-practice conference on “Carbon Neutrality: a New Trend in Global Economy” at its experimental site where testing and research activities took off as far back as a hundred years ago. PhosAgro Group and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) organized the event.