This year mark the tenth anniversary of the formal establishment of the FAO’s Global Soil Partnership (GSP): 2012-2022. Looking back at 2012, the GSP has fulfilled its mission to put soil on the global agenda, from promoting sustainable soil management to improving soil governance for healthy and productive soils around the world. This video illustrates the 10 main achievements of the partnership.

This short video illustrates the key achievements and highlights of the Global Soil Partnership over the course of 2021.

World Soil Day, 5 December 2020 was celebrated under the slogan “Keep soil alive, Protect soil biodiversity” with almost 800 events in 105 countries around the world. Millions of people were touched by the FAO Global Soil Partnership communication campaign.

GSP conducted an online interview Dr Diana Wall, a renowned soil ecologist and environmental scientist, and the keynote speaker for the Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity (GSOBI20). Dr. Wall addressed the main constraints and obstacles in considering soil biodiversity as a nature-based solution to today’s global challenges, provided some key methods to address these obstacles, and the implementation methods. Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity

The animation gives a brief introduction on the main drivers, the key functions and challenges of soil biodiversity loss, indicating possible ways to enhance soil biodiversity as a nature-based solution.