Seminar content   

The concept of soil pollution is the chemical substances and materials in the soil that adversely affect organic matter or soil function. Soil contaminants include inorganic and organic compounds, some organic wastes, and “chemicals of interest” added to the soil.

Soil pollution has a direct impact on food safety, and our food quality and safety are directly related to soil pollutants. The reason is that plants absorb soil pollutants through various channels and accumulate in the food chain, which causes food safety problems for humans and animals. In addition, contaminants that reach levels of toxicity can also inhibit crop growth and reduce soil biodiversity, thereby reducing crop yields and leading to food security issues.

In addition, soil pollution promotes and accelerates other degradation processes. Lead to a decline in biodiversity, loss of soil carbon and aggregate stability, and increased soil erosion and erosion. Soil pollution not only affects food security, but also threatens groundwater quality and soil ecosystem services.

The Global Soil Contamination Workshop will be held at FAO Headquarters on May 2-4, 2018. This meeting will be implemented in a voluntary soil sustainability and management approach to sustain soil by preventing and reducing soil contaminants. Health and food security to achieve sustainable development goals.

In particular, it is clear that the outcome of this meeting requires scientific evidence to support resolutions and actions to reduce and prevent soil pollution, thereby improving food safety and nutrients, increasing ecological services and improving the remediation capacity of contaminated soils.

Specific objectives of the workshop

Verify the understanding of advanced science and technology on soil pollution and test the role of these technologies in food production and safety. Critically reflect on the impact of land use decisions in the state (related mining, intensive agriculture and animal husbandry) on soil pollution, surrounding air bodies, soil erosion and runoff leading to water pollution. Evaluate the biggest limiting factors and the most important challenges in contaminated soil remediation. Summarize the international policies, regulations and frameworks for agricultural soil pollution, evaluate policy efficiency and achievement rate, and promote policy improvement. Investigate and evaluate global soil thresholds and explore the need for research and policy improvement. Seminar organization structure The seminar will be held in the form of a scientific conference for three days, from May 2nd to 4th, 2018. The conference will be held at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy. The delegates will come from different regions of the world. Well-known experts make a keynote report with the following topics:

Area 1: Soil pollution in farmland and other land use

  Agenda Item 1.1: Farmland Soil Driving Factors

  Topic 1.2: Soil Pollution Drivers for Other Land Use Patterns

Area 2: Impact of soil pollution on food production, food safety, the environment and human life

  Agenda Item 2.1: Soil Pollution and Food Safety

  Item 2.2: Risk Assessment of Environmental and Human Health by Soil Pollution

Field 3: Contaminated soil remediation

  Topic 3.1: Soil Pollution Monitoring

  Item 3.2: Current developments in contaminated soil remediation technologies

Area 4: Status of global soil pollution

  Agenda Item 4.1: Development Policy and Threshold Setting for Addressing Soil Pollution

  Item 4.2: Regional, National and Global Case Studies

The summary collection has been completed on February 28, 2018. A total of 160 abstracts were received and will be presented in four topics in the form of reports and presentations. The specific information was sent to the author by email on March 26, 2018.