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Be the solution to soil pollution | Non-treated wastewater source of soil pollution

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 1

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Poster, banner

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The World Soil Day is clebrated by the global community of 60 000 soil scientists and the GSP Secretariat has the mandate of communicating soil knowledge and reaching out to a large audience as stipulated in the UN resolution (A/RES/68/232 on the World Soil Day). The promotion of communication material for the WSD campaign can support achieving different FAO strategic objectives, in particular advocacy for making agriculture more productive and sustainable (SO2) and sharing information on increasing resilience of livelihoods from disasters (SO3).

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