Soils are fundamental pillars of sustainable
development. They are essential for food security, support human well-being,
and provide further ecosystem services, such as carbon storage.
They are not only essential but also severely
threatened, suffering a continuous decline in quality and being taken over by
urban sprawl.
Even though soils are managed and owned
locally, their degradation is a key global issue, as their functions transcend
national boundaries.
Therefore, we urgently need to upscale
actions towards sustainable soil management.
The First Global Soil Week will provide a
platform to initiate follow-up actions on land and soil-related decisions made
at the Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference and will take place within the
framework of the FAO’s Global Soil Partnership.
The First Global Soil Week offers a forum of
interactive exchange and dialogue.
Stakeholders from science, government,
business and civil society will come together to share their land and
soil-related experience and expertise, and to develop future plans of action
for sustainable land/soil management and governance.
The animated film LET’S TALK ABOUT SOIL
emphasizes human dependence on soils and describes how sustainable development
is threatened by certain soil use trends; the film offers options to make the
way we manage our soils more sustainable.
LET’S TALK ABOUT SOIL was produced by
designer and animator Uli Henrik Streckenbach for the Global Soil Week and the
Global Soil Partnership with the support of the Institute for Advanced
Sustainability Studies (IASS) – Global Soil Forum, the German Federal Ministry
for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations and the Deutsche Welle.
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