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Global Partnership for Nutrient Management

Global Partnership for Nutrient Management. October 17, 2011. The GPNM. Aims to fill-in this gap by bringing together governments, scientists, the private sector, NGOs and UN agencies into one Platform to raise awareness of nutrient issues and broker integrated approaches and solutions.

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Global Partnership for Nutrient Management

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  1. Global Partnership for Nutrient Management October 17, 2011

  2. The GPNM Aims to fill-in this gap by bringing together governments, scientists, the private sector, NGOs and UN agencies into one Platform to raise awareness of nutrient issues and broker integrated approaches and solutions.

  3. Based on Belief that: • responsibility for action to promote sustainable production and use of nutrients lies with countries • the nutrient related concerns, opportunities and actions must be embedded into the work of various agencies and organizations • we need to work in partnerships, involving the private sector, NGOs and communities • We must engage partners to identify and foster opportunities which can be applied by countries or scaled up as part of a more concerted national and international effort

  4. Lessons What lies ahead • As populations grow ag activity must intensify. • Fertilizer will be at least a part of the solution. • Countries and farmers must have tools to balance production efficiency with conservation while limiting nutrients entering waterways and ultimately into the coast • The GPNM will provide these connections. • We want to support stakeholders to implement plans to address LBS.

  5. How will GPNM contribute? • improved information and assessment of the multiple and linked impacts of nutrients • more integrated management approaches, tools and training which address the root causes of over-enrichment, and help to prevent the release of excess nutrients • connecting the value chain so that synergies/collaborations have much more impact

  6. How will it work? • A knowledge platform (sharing of good practices) • supporting science - policy interactions • translating science for policy makers • extension - to close nutrient cycle from soil to crop and back to agricultural soil based on the principle of 4Rs - ‘right nutrient’ at the ‘right time’, in the ‘right place’ and at the ‘right rate’ • awareness raising: packaging information for stakeholders and media as necessary to build political will • facilitating policy reform and policy development

  7. GPNM • Positioning of nutrient issues as part of international sustainable development agenda • Building the global advocacy platform to ensure synergies of actions by various stakeholders • Provide a CoP space where countries and other stakeholders can forge more cooperative work across the variety of international & regional organizations and agencies dealing with nutrients

  8. Partners – to date Governments • Netherlands • Indonesia • Italy • Thailand • United States (USDA) UN System • UNEP • FAO • UN-Habitat • UNESCO • UNDP Private Sector/NGOs • IFA (France) • SCOPE (France) • Indian Nitrogen Group (India) • Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. (India) • IGBP (Sweden) • GETF (USA) • INI (USA)

  9. GPNM Action Plan: 2011-2012 • Outreach and advocacy program – dissemination of GPNM publication “Foundations for sustainable nutrient management” • Ensure synergies with other initiatives (i.e., GPWM) • Development of a “Policy Toolbox” based on the review of nutrient best management practices (in partnership with USDA and GETF) • Development of a training module to support application of the “policy toolbox” targeting PMs and policy makers (in partnership with USDA and GETF)

  10. GPNM Action Plan: 2011-2012 • Launch of new GEF project “Global foundations for reducing nutrient enrichment and oxygen depletion from land based pollution, in support of Global Nutrient Cycle” • Begin to implement pilot projects (i.e., Philippines (Manila Bay), India (Chilika lake) and Thailand (Trang Province)) • Global overview of nutrients use and management practices (in partnership with INI) • Nutrient management workshop (spring, Beijing, China) for the development of nutrient management plan for China (in partnership with China Agricultural University and SAIN) • Meeting of GPNM Asia Platform (back to back of Spring meeting in Beijing)

  11. GPNM Action Plan: 2011-2012 • Rapid African Assessment and launch of GPNM Africa Platform (in partnership with Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa - AGRA) • Launch of extension Africa program (in partnership with the USDA) • Holding of workshops with policy makers to test the “policy toolbox” (the 3rd Inter-governmental Review meeting of the GPA in January 2012) • Launch of the global synthesis report elucidating the economic and environmental costs present nutrient management policies (possibly RIO+20 in June 2012. • Holding of a day long session during the 2nd Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change in Vietnam in 2012 (in partnership with the Netherlands Ministry of Environment)

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