The Global Soil Partnership bids a fond farewell to Prof. Mohamed Badraoui, an eminent soil expert who has been serving in the first Intergovernmental Technical Panel of Soil from 2013 to 2015.

The Global Soil Partnership is recruiting professionals with different profiles and relevant expertise on Sustainable Soil Management. The candidates will be supporting the development, quality control and effective implementation of FAO’s soil portfolio including the Global Soil Partnership work plan through the provision of expertise in relevant technical areas including project formulation and implementation to support member countries.

The Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly (PA) constitutes the main venue where all GSP partners come together to make important decisions about the global soil agenda. The 7th PA of the Global Soil Partnership will take place at FAO headquarters in Rome from 5 to 7 June 2019.

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The pilot project “Economic evaluation of soil and nutrient loss in Malawi” ( GLO/17/001//01/99), funded by the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment initiative, analysed the economic impact of both soil and soil nutrient loss in Malawi with new country-representative data on soil erosion and nutrients loss indicators collected through field surveys, merged with detailed climatic data and socio-economic information. Soil/nutrient loss was translated into yield loss, the micro and macroeconomic economic impact of loss on agricultural production as a result of soil degradation was estimated, best practices were then identified to mitigate the soil and nutrient loss events in pair with net benefits in terms of growth of economic income, food security and poverty.

6 March 2019 | Hotel Cambodiana, Phnom Penh, Cambodia