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Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management

Year of publication 2017

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 26 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Synopsis (short abstract) The Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management (VGSSM) were adopted by the 4th GSP Plenary Assembly (Rome, 25 May 2016), approved by the 25th session of the FAO Committee on Agriculture (Rome, 28 September 2016) and finally endorsed by the 155th session of the FAO Council (Rome, 5 December 2016). These guidelines provide technical and policy recommendations on how sustainable soil management can be achieved. The successful implementation of these guidelines should pave the way to boost ing soil health

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