İt was first proposed by the International Soil
Sciences Union (IUSS) to determine the international soil day in 2002. Under
the leadership of the Kingdom of Thailand and within the framework of the
Global Soil Partnership, the World Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
supported the establishment of World Soil Day as an official day as a global
awareness-raising platform. FAO unanimously approved World Soil Day at the
Conference it held in June 2013 and demanded that it be formally adopted at the
68th United Nations (UN) General Assembly. In December 2013, the UN General
Assembly responded positively to this request by designating December 5, 2014
as the first official World Soil Day. The United Nations also declared 2015 the
International Year of the Soil, contributing to raising global awareness of the
importance of soils.








World Soil Day is
held on 5 December each year as a tool to draw attention to the importance of
healthy soil and to advocate for the sustainable management of soil
resources.The theme of World Soil Day on December 5, 2018 was celebrated with
the slogan "Be a Solution to Prevent Soil Pollution" and the hashtag
#Stop SoilPollution.


 


 


FAO reports that 1/3 of the world's land is
degraded. We are at risk of losing more land due to soil pollution, which is a
hidden danger. Soil pollution can be invisible and seem far away, but everyone
and everywhere is affected. The world population is expected to reach 9 billion
by 2050. Soil pollution is a worldwide problem that poisons the food we eat,
the water we drink and the air we breathe. Since there is no data on a global
scale, the existence of the problem is still unknown.