Keeping soils alive and healthy is key to sustain life on our planet
FAO-hosted Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity closes with a call to recognize a vital role of soil organisms
23 April 2021, Rome - The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) drew to a close with a call to recognize and enhance the role of soil organisms in sustaining life on Earth.
Soils are one of the main global reservoirs of biodiversity. They host more than 25 percent of the world s supply of this valued resource from where 95 percent of the food we eat is produced. In addition, more than 40 percent of living organisms in terrestrial ecosystems are connected with soils during their life cycle.
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It was noted in an ILO press release on 1
st February that according to a global survey of more than 1,350 providers of Technical Vocational Educational Training (TVET), many countries and training providers were insufficiently prepared to respond to the constraints that resulted from the crisis, although some rapidly shifted to distance learning.
It was also noted that a majority of survey respondents had reported disruptions to training, in particular to work-based learning due to enterprise closures, as well as the cancellation of assessment and certification exams.
However, on a more positive note, it was also mentioned that since the start of the crisis, innovations in teaching and learning had begun to emerge, according to the report,
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UN report says pandemic negatively affecting aquaculture
Article by February 20, 2021
Global fisheries and aquaculture have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and could face further disruption in 2021 as lockdowns affect supply and demand across the sector, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).
The report, The impact of COVID-19 on fisheries and aquaculture food systems, was featured during the 34
th session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) hosted by FAO.
Fish supply, consumption and trade revenues for 2020 are all expected to have declined due to containment restrictions, the report noted, while global aquaculture production is expected to fall by some 1.3 per cent, the first fall recorded by the sector in several years.