Main highlights in the press
Driven by major news agencies such as Bloomberg, Reuters, AFP, the WSD campaign was widely picked up by media around the world. Here are some samples: Bangkok Post, Thailand’s The Nation, the Vatican’s Osservatore Romano, Paraguay’s ABC, Peru’s El Comercio, EFE, Costa Rica’s El Mundo and Italy’s SkyTV (Sky Tg24) “Giornata mondiale del suolo, Fao: "Inquinati cibo, aria e acqua”. Turkey’s Milliyet and Yenisafak focused on the SoilSTAT data base and cited FAO’s Voirel Gutu, together with AA state news agency with the WSD photo campaign and the Turkey Ministry of Agriculture Haberler.com; India’s Down to Earth focused on excessive tillage and cited FAO’s Konda Reddy. This story from Italy, citing ISPRA, EU and FAO studies assessed the invisible costs of soil degradation and strong arguments against soil pollution from Beppe Grillo’s blog “Stop all’inquinamento del suolo”. Eduardo Mansur gave an interview to BBC Radio 4, Farming Today for WSD.
Highest National Coverage
- Australia’s The University of Newcastle;
- Bangladesh's theindependentbd.com; এই সময়Bengali;
- Canada’s Morgan Murphy’s media News8000.com, traveller’s blog such as Planeta.com; DiscoverMooseJaw.com;
- Georgia’s Gainesville Times;
- Germany’s RS-Tech;
- India’s The New Indian Express, Maharashtra Times, The Kashmir Images Newspaper, Rising Kashmir, The Hindu BusinessLine, United News of India 1, United News of India 2, United News of India 3, United News of India 4, United News of India 5, The New Indian Express, Sanjeevni, DiscoverHumboldt.com, Morung Express, The Sentinel Assam, Internazionale-United News of India, Zee Business, Patrika, Dekh News, State Times, Internazionale-The Arunachal Times, Malayala Manorama - മലയാള മനോരമ, മാതൃഭൂമി, సాక్షి, Jagran Josh, Vijaya Karnataka, Star of Mysore, प्रभात खबर, Krishi Jagran, விகடன், മാതൃഭൂമി, Bhagalpur News, नवभारत टाइम्स, दैनिक जागरण, Lokmat;
- Ireland’s FreshPlaza, Irish Times, the Green News;
- Italy’s Ansa.it on “La Giornata Mondiale del Suolo, dedicata all'inquinamento”, La Repubblica with “La Giornata Mondiale del Suolo: quest’anno è dedicata all’inquinamento” and on “Consumo di suolo, ogni giorno l'Emilia-Romagna si mangia più di un ettaro di terreno agricolo”, ISPRA per Soil4 Life "Il consumo di suolo è un problema grave per il nostro Paese e per l'Europa", Greenreport: economia ecologica e sviluppo sostenibile with World Soil Day: “Senza suolo non si vive. E non è rinnovabile!” (VIDEO), Greenme “World Soil Day: come stiamo avvelenando il suolo...”, Focus Junior on “Giornata Mondiale del Suolo: il 5 dicembre si celebra la Madre Terra!”, Il Manifesto, EarthDay, Occhio di Salerno, San Gavino Monreale.net;
- Mexico’s the Kozweek;
- Nigeria’s Daily Trust, Internazionale-The Eagle Online; Vanguard;
- Saint Vincent e Grenadine’s Searchlight Newspaper;
- San Marino's “World Soil Day: San Marino in primo piano nella lotta ai cambiamentI...”, mercoledì tavola rotonda in occasione del "World Soil Day", SMTV San Marino;
- United Kingdom’s GOV.uk, New Food 1, New Food 2, Science Daily, FarmingUK, the Huffington Post, Daily Pioneer, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The PigSite, GreenMe.com.br, South Coast Register;
- United States of America’s USDA, World Bank, Corn and Soybean Digest, Ohio's Country Journal and Ohio Ag Net. Institute for Local Self-Resilience, Canadian-US’s Farms.com, Rural News Group, dedicated blog on Food Tank, the think tank for food, on Kiss the Ground, Yubanet, Avery Journal Times, Delta Farm Press, Vail Daily News, PRNewswire, AG Week, Successful Farming Agriculture.com (here);
- Thailand’s มติชน; เชียงไหม่นิวส์;
- Viet Nam’s http://en.vietnamplus.vn/ and here.