| Title | Nitrogen Opportunities for Agriculture, Food & Environment: UNECE Guidance Document on Integrated Sustainable Nitrogen Management |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Year of Publication | 2022 |
| Authors | Sutton MA, Howard CM, Mason KE, Brownlie W, Cordovil C |
| Date Published | 11/2022 |
| Institution | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
| City | Edinburgh |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-906698-78-2 |
| Report Number | 2022/02 |
| Abstract | ‘Nitrogen Opportunities for Agriculture, Food & Environment’ is the first ever United Nations Guidance Document on Integrated Sustainable Nitrogen Management. It brings all major forms and impacts of nitrogen together for multiple environmental and economic benefits. The Nitrogen Guidance Document focuses on agriculture in the context of the food system and environment. It identifies the principles of integrated sustainable nitrogen management, followed by measures to reduce nitrogen losses from livestock housing and manure storage, including measures to promote nutrient recovery. It then identifies measures to reduce nitrogen losses from organic and inorganic fertilizers, and measures that focus on landscape and land-use management, finishing by considering coherent ‘measures packages’. While this guidance document has been formally adopted by the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (ECE/EB.AIR/149), it is equally relevant to support national and international policies on water, climate, biodiversity, soils and stratospheric ozone depletion. The document contributes to implementing UNEA Resolutions 4/14 and 5/2, and the Colombo Declaration ambition to halve nitrogen waste from all sources. The document has been prepared under the lead of the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen of the UNECE Convention, with the support of the GEF/UNEP International Nitrogen Management System.
Click the links below to open the guidance document: Chapter 1: Overview for policymakers - Nitrogen opportunities for agriculture, food and environment Chapter 3: Principles of inegrated sustainable nitrogen management Chapter 4: Housed livestock, manure storage and manure processing Chapter 5: Field Application of Organic Fertilizers Chapter 6: Land-use and landscape management Chapter 7: Development of packages of measures for integrated sustainale nitrogen management |
