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Harmonized World Soil Database - A 30 arc-second raster database that combines regional and national updates of soil information worldwide (SOTER, ESD, Soil Map of China, WISE) with the information contained within the 1:5 000 000 scale FAO-UNESCO Soil Map of the World [2007-2008] |
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Global Environmental Outlook; GEO-4 - ISRIC coordinated UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook Chapter 3, Land Working Group [2005-2007] more ...
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Chittagong Hill Tracts Improved Natural Resources Management (CHARM) - EU-funded project addressing land resources management in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh [2005 - 2007]
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SOTER Central Africa (SOTERCAF) - SOTER database for the Democratic Republic Congo (scale 1:2 M), Rwanda and Burundi (scale 1:1 M) [2005 - 2006]
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Soil and Water Protection (SOWAP) - collaborative activity by industry, NGOs, academic institutions and farmers to address the concept of conservation tillage in the UK, Belgium and Hungary and the Czech republic [2004-2006]
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GeoPortal - Development of an open infrastructure for the documentation and exchange of geo-information. ISRIC contributed its international soil holdings to the project [2005-2006]
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Kalimantan project - Assessment of physical land suitability for oil palm cultivation in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Funded by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality [2006]
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Cambodia - Assistance to the National Land Resources Assessment team in Cambodia, in particular land suitability for small -holder settlement [2005 – 2006]
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Extrapolation study for the Carbon Sequestration Project of pasture systems in the American tropical forest ecosystem (CSEQ) - A Netherlands Cooperation Project in Colombia and Costa Rica [2005 - 2006]
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Assessment of Soil Organic Carbon Stocks and Change at National Scale (GEFSOC) - GEF co-financed project which developed a generic system which can quantify the potential impact of land use/ management and climate scenarios on sequestration of organic carbon in soils at national and sub-national level [2002-2005]
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Harmonized Global Soil Resources Database - Parameter estimates for 18 soil attributes were generated for all existing regional and continental SOTER and similar databases using the procedure developed for the GEFSOC project. Co-financed by FAO [2004-2005]
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Global data set of soil parameter estimates - Development of a harmonized global set of soil parameter estimates, at a resolution of 5 by 5 arc-minutes, for use with the IMAGE model. Study funded by the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM, Project Number S/550005/01/DD - 197722) [2004-2004]
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Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA1) - Global project, implemented by UNEP/GEF and executed by FAO. ISRIC prepared two review papers dealing with the identification of sources, data, indicators and assessment methods for land degradation [2002-2004]
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PAN-European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment (PESERA) - EU project which developed a physically based, spatial model of soil erosion for Europe. ISRIC was responsible for climatic and land use scenario analyses [2000-2003]
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Harmonisation of Soil and Terrain Information for the Southern African Region (SOTER-SAF)- Compilation of a regional SOTER and assessment of land suitability, land degradation risk, and changes in land qualities resulting from land use change. Funded by FAO, ISRIC and UNEP [2001-2003]
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Berau Forest Management Project (BFMP)- EU project to achieve sustainable forest management and conservation in Indonesia [2002-2003] more ...
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Impact of Desertification on Food Security in Southern Africa: a Case Study for Zimbabwe (ZILRIS)- UNEP-funded project executed in collaboration with the Zimbabwean Chemistry and Soil Research Institute [2000-2004]
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Soil parameter estimates for the soil types of the world (WISE2) - Study commissioned by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) [2000-2001]
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Pilot Analysis of Global Ecosystems (PAGE) - Analytical inputs to an international project, coordinated by WRI and IFPRI [1999-2000]
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SOTER for Hainan Province (HainanSOTER) - Technical assistance with the compilation of a 1:250,000 scale SOTER database for Hainan Province, PR of China; funded by UNDP [1998-2002]
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Carbon Sequestration in the Soil (SOC-NOP) - Management options for reducing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere by increasing carbon sequestration in the soil, a desk study for the Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change [1998-1999]
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Mapping of Soil and Terrain Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe (SOVEUR) - An FAO-funded project, involving 13 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, coordinated by ISRIC [1997-2000]
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Scaling of Trace Gas Fluxes (SCALING) - Co-organization of an international workshop to review the state-of-the-art in the field of scaling of fluxes of greenhouse gases, ozone and aerosol precursors [1997-1998]
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Soil degradation in South and South East Asia (ASSOD) [1995-1997]
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Biodiversity project- Integrated study of land properties, their floristic indicators and appropriate farming systems in Amazonian Peru. Funded by the Life Sciences and Technologies for Development Programme of the European Communities (EC-STD3) [1994-1998]
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Global Environmental Outlook 1 (GEO-1) - Regional and national studies on impact of water erosion on crop production in Kenya, Argentina and Uruguay for UNEP’s Pilot Global Environmental Outlook project [1995-1996]
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SOTER database for Hungary (HuNSOTER) - Technical assistance with the compilation of a 1:500 000 scale SOTER database for Hungary [at the Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry; funded by UNEP [1993-1995]
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Soil and Terrain Database for Latin America and the Caribbean (SOTERLAC) [1993-1997; updated 2005]
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Ethno-Pedological Studies - Ghana, Peru and the Philippines (ILEIA) [1995-1997]
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World Inventory of Soil Emission Potentials (WISE) - Development of a homogenized set of primary soil data relevant for a wide range of environmental studies, including agro-ecological zoning, soil vulnerability to pollution, and soil gaseous emission potentials [1991-1996]
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SOTER for Kenya - Technical assistance with the compilation of a 1:1M scale SOTER database for Kenya in collaboration with the Kenya Soil Survey; funded by UNEP [1991-1995]
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Global Assessment of Human-induced Soil Degradation (GLASOD) - International project funded by UNEP [1987-1990]
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China Soils - Establishment of a soil reference collection and database at the Institute of Soil Science, Academica Sinica (ISS-AS). Funded by the Life Sciences and Technologies for Development Programme of the European Communities (EC-STD2) [1993-1995]
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National Soil Reference Collections (NASREC) [1980-1995]
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Laboratory Methods and Data Exchange (LABEX) [1980-1990]
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