GSP PILLAR 1 - GLOBAL PLAN OF ACTION: PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE SOIL MANAGEMENT

GSP PILLAR 1 - GLOBAL PLAN OF ACTION:

PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE SOIL

MANAGEMENT

2nd GSP Plenary Assembly

Rome, Italy

22-24 July 2014

Liesl Wiese

Pillar One Working Group

23 July 2014

PILLAR 1

Promote sustainable management

of soil resources for

soil protection,

conservation and

sustainable productivity

6

5

Southwest

Pacific

3

3

5

2

1

North America

1

Original WG (26)

6

2

Southwest

Pacific

2

2

3

1

1

North America

0

Active WG (17)

(1) DEFINING SSM

“Management practices that protect

soil and enhance its performance for

the production of goods and

provision of ecosystem services

without degrading or impairing

on- or off-site ecosystem functions.”

Food security

Soil functions/

Ecosystem services

Maintaining biodiversity

Climate change

Increasing

population

Inappropriate

soil

management

Inadequat

e

governanc

e

Increase SSM

implementation

!

Increase SSM

implementatio

n!

(3) Assess

and address

barriers

(4) Identify

appropriate

SSM

practices

(5)

Sustainable

intensificatio

n of

production -

balanced soil

fertility

management (6) Cost-benefit

analyses of

SSM

(7) Coordinate and

(8) Monitor SSM

implementation (9) Effective

communication

strategy

(10) National

and regional

solutions and

policies

(11) Link

with existing

initiatives

(2) FAO

Members,

please

approve this

plan of

action!!! Barrier

s

to SSM

Soi

l

Working Group

Archis Ambulkar, Joseph Bagyaraj,

Arnulfo Encina Rojas, Rafael Fuentes,

Violette Geissen, Maria Beatriz Giraudo

Hedi Hamrouni, Patrick Heffer, Jeroen Huising, Pem

Kandel, Peter Kuikman, Konrad Meyer, Olegario Muniz,

Peter Weisskopf,

Liesl Wiese (Chair), Pandi Zdruli, Feras Ziadat

FAO Sally Bunning, Ronald Vargas