19 April 2021, Rome, Italy - Virtual Meeting: Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity. Composite picture from left: FAO Director-General QU Dongyu; Renato Alvarado Rivera, Minister for Agriculture and Livestock, Costa Rica; Virginijus Sinkevicius, Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, European Union; Tang Renjian, Minister for Agriculture and Rural A?airs, People's Republic of China; Hisham Mohamed Badr, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt to FAO; Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Deserti?cation; Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity; Eduardo Mansur, FAO.