World soil issues and sustainable development: an agenda for action
40 years ISRIC – World Soil Information (Anniversary Seminar, 9th March 2006)
Decision makers need up-to-date, accurate soil information to inform policy, development and day-to-day land and water management. But they don’t know it! More than 35 years ago, Robertson and Stoner observed: “It is alarming to observe how little of the land resource data investigated and mapped is actually used in development or management … its lack of use is by no means always related to irrelevance or the form in which it is presented …” Why has nothing changed?
The seminar focussed on today’s global soil issues (Abstracts, Presentations ). Subsequently, three new Honorary Fellows were presented: Professor Dr Pedro Sanchez, Professor Dr Johan Bouma and Dr Luca Montanarella.
Professor Pedro Sanchez giving his presentation
Download presentations:
Pedro Sanchez (Columbia Univ. USA ) - Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Africa (PDF; 3.5 Mb)
David Dent (ISRIC Wageningen) - Global soil issues: ISRIC in the world of soil information (PDF)
Carlos Cerri et al. (CENA Brazil) - Soil organic carbon stocks/sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions (PDF; 13 Mb)
Tom Veldkamp (Wageningen UR) - Global land change and soil-landscape dynamics (PDF; 4Mb)
Nuhu Hatibu (ASARECA, Eastern and Central Africa) - Quick-Win Solutions to Integrated Management of Soil- Health and Water by the Poor in Semi-Arid Areas of Africa (PDF; 16 Mb)
Hans Hurni (CDE, Berne) - Soils in the International Arena: Why do we do so little? (PDF-1 & PDF-2; 5 resp. 2 Mb)