Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition

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DISCUSSION No. 124  

Online consultation for developing the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management

until 29 February 2016

 

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Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to share the first ten contributions to the online consultation for developing the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management.

Our colleagues working for the Global Soil Partnership invite all those interested in soils to comment on the ‘Zero draft’ of the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management (VGSSM), which have just been released.

Comments are welcome both on the questions proposed in the topic note, available in English, French and Spanish, and directly on the draft document (using track change or comment mode).

Can these guidelines help achieve sustainable soil management under different circumstances and contexts? Are they duly considering all the ecosystem services soils provide? Are they in line with the Sustainable Development Goals?

To participate you can either:

- register to the FSN Forum here and post online,

- send your comments to [log in to unmask].

We thank very much those of you who will take their time to read through this document and contribute to its improvement.

The FSN Forum team

 

 

CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED

iconPrakasa Rao, India

Prakasa shared his suggestions on the draft, which you can find online attached to his post.

 

iconDaniel Dale, FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa, Egypt

Daniel appreciates the guidelines and shares further comments on the draft attached to his contribution.

 

iconEmile Houngbo, Agricultural University of Ketou (UAK), Benin

In his comment, Emile suggests that the guidelines should identify ways to face the obstacles to sustainable soil management worldwide. He shares a thesis where a theory on soil management under high land pressure is developed, emphasising the role of the farmers’ welfare state as an important determinant of sustainable soil management and agricultural productivity improvement.

Read Emile's contribution here

 

iconMubarak Abdalla, Sudan

Mubarak finds the guidelines very useful and shares a few comments on the draft document attached to his comment.

 

iconBernard Vanlauwe, IITA, Kenya

Bernard observes that the draft places a lot of emphasis on Conservation Agriculture, while sustainable soil management should apply to all agricultural practices. This bias is also reflected in the selected references.

Read Bernard's contribution

 

iconOlegario Muñiz, Soil Institute, Cuba

Olegario proposes that the guidelines include a section addressing concrete ways to achieve sustainable soil management, via minimum regulatory frameworks, developing large scale programmes and establishing harmonised methodologies of assessment, among others.

Read Olegario's contribution

 

iconYoganath Adikari, FAO, Italy

Yoganath shares a few comments and questions on the draft.

Read Yoganath's comment

 

iconJosé Luis Rubio, CIDE, Spain

José appreciates the aims and scope of the guidelines and shares some specific concerns, among which the absence of dry land management and strategies / measures for combating desertification and the weakness in addressing urban and periurban soil aspects.

Read José's contribution here

 

iconPatrick Bhekisisa Dlamini, Ministry of Agriculture, Swatziland

Patricks' comments are reported in track change mode on the draft document and are mostly related to wording, attached to his post.

 

iconJohn Baker, Baker No-Tillage, New Zealand

John shares resources on no-tillage practices in the context of sustainable soil management.

Read John's contribution

 

 

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