Soils Newsletter, Vol. 40, No. 1, July 2017

The Soil and Water Management and Crop Nutrition (SWMCN) Section has begun implementing the 2018-2019 biennium activities, including forty-five technical cooperation projects (TCPs). Success stories from past TCPs can be found on our website at http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nafa/swmm/index.html. Another hightlight was the featuring of the SWMCN Laboratory, together with the other laboratories of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division, in the National Geographic documentary: Nuclear Lifeline, a two-part documentary about nuclear technology. The documentary (in Dutch and French versions), produced by the Belgian Nuclear Forum in close collaboration with the National Geographic, can be downloaded at https://www.nuclearlifeline.be/. In April year, the SWMCN Section participated in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly held annually in Vienna, Austria. The SMCN Laboratory's work on large-scale nuclear emergency response in food and agriculture was selected as a solicited submission and highlighted in the EGU session on 'Geoscience processes related to Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear accidents'. The SWSMCN Subprogamme continues to generate guidelines and technical documents for use by Member States and the SWMCN Section will be organizing a consultants' meeting on the use of stable isotopes for monitoring agricultural-derived pollutants and land management practices for improving water quality, to formulate a coordinated research project (CRP) to address agricultural-related water quality issues. We hope through this consultants' meeting and the future CRP that we will be able to trace the movement of agricultural pollutants to surface- and ground-water through the use of isotopic techniques.