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26.08.2018

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Developed to respond to UN Environment Assembly and UN Committee on Agriculture (COAG) objectives and to implement the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management (2016), this proposed Code aims to provide a locally adaptable framework andvoluntary set of practices with which governments, the fertiliserindustry, agricultural extension and advisory services, farmers andstakeholders can contribute to sustainable agriculture and food securityfrom a nutrient management perspective. In particular, the Code aims toassist countries in establishing systems for monitoring fertilisertrade, quality and management and for promoting their efficient andeffective use. The Codes' objectives include to "Promote recyclingof nutrients for agricultural and other land uses to reduce theenvironmental impacts of excess nutrients in the biosphere".

Chapters are: soil fertility and plant nutrition, fertiliser use andmanagement, nutrient use and recycling, composition and testing, accessand labelling, information, monitoring and observance. The Code has beendeveloped by the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) ofthe Global Soil partnership (GSP) and FAO through an inclusiveconsultation process and was published in June 2018 as a ?zero-draft?, now under finalisation.

Zero-draft Code of Conduct for the Use and Management of Fertilizers www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/resources/highlights/detail/fr/c/1141549.

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