On the occasion of the launch of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) at FAO on 7 September 2011, Assistant Director-General Alexander Müller signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Global Water Partnership Executive Secretary Ania Grobicki. The GSP will help to implement the provisions of the World Soil Charter, adopted in 1982, and to raise awareness and motivate action by decision-makers on the importance of soils for food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation. As such it will complement the work of the Global Water Partnership.
