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September 16, 2011   •   News

Global Soil Partnership for Food Security launched at FAO

The FAO has launched a new Global Soil Partnership for Food security and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation.

The partnership is developing an Action Plan on sustainable soil management that will develop synergies between partners and bring together work currently being done separately on soil survey, assessment and monitoring, soil productivity, soil carbon, soil biodiversity and ecology and soil and water conservation. Read the article