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Healthy Soils in Ukraine Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Healthy soils in Ukraine: 2020 Integrated Natural Resources Management in Degraded Landscapes in the Forest-Steppe and Steppe Zones ofUkraine Overview of project activities PROJECT DESCRIPTION W е are growing crops in а The project is а joint initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the region that is barely suitaЫe United Nations (FAO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to promote for this. However, we are the restoration of degraded landscapes in the steppe and forest-steppe zones working оп restoring of Ukraine. The project is led Ьу the Ministry of Energy and Environmental shelterbelts and adopting Protection with support from the Ministry of Economic Development, no-till technology to stop the Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine. desert that is expanding towards us every day, and to The main objective of the project is to assist in leading state authorities in stop wind and water erosion developing environmental monitoring and achieving land degradation and soil degradation. neutrality in the steppe and forest-steppe zones. Implementation of the Andrii Shchedrinov, focal point on conservation project is focused on raising awareness of the proЫem of sustainaЫe agriculture practices in Kherson oЫast natural resource management. Ukraine's famously fertile and extensive Ыасk soils are suffering from serious erosion and deterioration after many years of intensive production. They have become acidic, saline, or alkaline due to unsustainaЫe agricultural practices, such as excessive use of mineral fertilizers and outdated technologies. Over 13 million ha of land have been damaged Ьу water erosion and 6 million ha Ьу wind erosion. The eroded area is estimated to have increased Ьу 70 ООО to 100 ООО ha per year during the last decade. Moreover, irrigated land has decreased Ьу approximately 15 percent over the past 15 years. Water losses have also increased due to inefficient management. Activities under this project relate to the broader global efforts and contribute to achieving SustainaЫe Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) Life on land and SDG 12 SustainaЫe consumption and production. Project focus points in 2020: PROJECT COMPONENTS • Strengthening intergovernmental collaboration to incorporate the EnaЫing environment for integrated natural resource management (INRM) principles into the 1 integrated natural resource Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sectoral management frameworks, policies, and regulations. Restoration of productivity • EnaЫing the development of the National Strategy on Land and resilience of production Degradation Neutrality (LDN) monitoring. 2 landscapes • Developing the technical specification for а multi-dimensional 3 Monitoring, evaluation and geographic information systems (GIS) data platform for monitoring adaptive management soil and land conditions. • Improving legislation for shelterbelt management. • Developing procedures, regulations, and standards for the inventory, planting, and management of shelterbelts for the different types of shelterbelt ownership. • Developing inclusive, green food and feed value chains for selected non-timber forest products and medicinal herbs. • Strengthening the capacity of agricultural service providers to implement the best conservation agriculture (СА) and climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices in agricultural risk zones of Ukraine. • Upscaling the best agroforestry and conservation agricultural practices in Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Kyiv oЫasts. Source: FAO, 2019 • Increasing support to the special needs of rural women at project sites. ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR INTEGRATED NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COLLABORAT ION WIТH GOVERNMENT STRENGTHENING INSTIТUTIONAL, LEGAL AND In collaboration with the Ministry of Environmental POLICY-ENABLING CONDIТIONS FOR INRM Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine (MEPNR), А strong enaЫing environment among the key national the project was included in the working group under stakeholders has been developed based on regular the ommittee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on meetings of working groups of the Coordinating Council Environmental Policy and Nature Management. It to combat land degradation and desertification providedС input to two national legislative regulations (CC-LDD) and steering committee (SC) members. The developed and approved: enaЫing environment was strengthened Ьу expanding the CC-LDD with 25 new members (Ministry of Health; • Regulation measures to address and prevent State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine; State annual mass fires caused Ьу burning plant Institution "Institute for Soil Protection of Ukraine"; an residues and burning stubЫe remains. oЫast administration; 17 local village communities; 3 • Maintenance and preservation regulation for local regional authorities; and an NGO). А set of field protective shelterbelts located legislative regulations to facilitate INRM and action on agricultural lands. plans on LDN were developed as а result of cooperation between 3 ministers, 9 state institutes, 4 oЫast Additionally, it provided input to amendments to five administrations, 73 local authorities, 3 NGOs, laws developed and accepted: Law of Ukraine "On Land farmers, and academia. Protection"; Law of Ukraine "About Flora"; Land Code of Ukraine; Civil Protection Code of Ukraine; and Code Additionally, leading national scientists and relevant of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses. governmental actors were trained in monitoring soil salinity and mapping soil organic carbon with support Moreover, the project is an active member of other from the Global Soil Partnership. They were also working groups, namely, the Inter-agency working trained in the use of satellite products for drought group (WG) on elaboration of the environmental monitoring and applications in agrometeorology monitoring system (under the MEPNR), the hosted Ьу the World Meteorological Organization. Inter-agency WG on developing а conceptual basis for LDN monitoring in Ukraine [under the Ministry for ESTABLISНING AN ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture SYSTEM (MDETA)], and the Shelterbelt inventory and In partnership with а key stakeholder, the National reconstruction WG (under the Kherson Scientific Institute for Soil Science and Geochemistry State OЫast Administration). Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky, the project "Reconciliation of the national system of soil classifiers The project team, in cooperation with the Ukrainian with WRB 2014" was realized to provide correlation Soil Partnership (UaSP), created an advisory board to taЫes between soil types in the national classification develop the National Strategy on LDN monitoring, and the international soil classification system [World including participants from Verkhovna Rada, MEPNR, Reference Base (WRB), FAO 2014]. Ву this activity, the MDETA, and the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, guidelines on matching Ukrainian soil types with WRB Cartography, and Cadastre (StateGeoCadastre). In this 2014 including the systematized topical dictionary regard, institutional analysis including the will Ье elaborated. assessment of technical capacity to develop а national environment monitoring system (NEMS), the draft Additionally, а brief analysis of the current status of regulation on the LDN monitoring system, and а agriculture drought and loss of availaЫe water in the technical specification for an 1Т platform for LDN south of Ukraine was developed and access to data monitoring - has been performed and elaborated. provided before launching further national drought assessments. А technical specification for а multi-dimensional GIS data platform for monitoring soil and land conditions using better targeting and more effective natural resource management to increase climate change resilience and better soil and water conditions was developed. http: //www. fao.org/gef /highlights /detail /en/c/ 1293651/. session press conference session Mission: Keep soil alive! session Climate change: Challenges and opportunities for agricultural education and science, Press briefing national round table session .
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