On 8-9 October 2024, CABI, ISRIC — World Soil Information and Ghana’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Soil Research Institute (CSIR-SRI) held a 2-day soil information systems workshop at the Capital View Hotel, Koforidua, Ghana. The workshop brought together the key stakeholders who can help strengthen the soil information system in Ghana (GhaSIS), including policymakers, soil information producers and data users.

Caring for Soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage. The theme of this year's World Soil Day underscores the importance of quality assessed and standardised soil data and information in understanding soils properties and supporting informed decision-making on sustainable soil management for food security and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

In September of this year, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), its Global Soil Partnership (GSP) and the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISSCAS) co-organised a Global Symposium on Soil Information and Data (GSID24) in Nanjing, China.

FARA), ISRIC and CABI, supported by FAO, have signed an implementation agreement to establish a continent-wide partnership to enhance soil information systems in Africa.

CABI and ISRIC - World Soil Information invite you to participate in an online demonstration of their new framework for creating a sustainable national Soil Information System (SIS) on 24 October 2024. Two sessions will be organised to accommodate different time zones

A new open access paper titled “Providing quality-assessed and standardised soil data to support global mapping and modelling (WoSIS snapshot 2023)”, with ISRIC senior soil science expert Niels Batjes as lead author, was recently published in Earth System Science Data.

A new open access paper titled, "Towards a modular, multi-ecosystem Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) framework for soil organic carbon stock change assessment", with ISRIC senior soil science expert Niels Batjes as main author, was recently published in Carbon Management.

HoliSoils hosted a training on soil sampling and classification in Eberswalde aimed at soil sampling to enhance the harmonised monitoring of forest soils across Europe. The event focused on the practical application of a soil sampling design and soil classification according to the WRB, with a focus on carbon stock calculation for greenhouse gas reporting.

CABI and ISRIC recently launched an innovative new online platform which showcases a framework for sustainable national soil information systems (SISs). Created by CABI and ISRIC, the framework is a central part of the Soil Information Systems Review, a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The 2024 World Soil of the Year is the typical Chernozem of the Bălţi steppe of the Republic of Moldova. It was presented as the first World Soil of the Year at the celebration of the International Uni Centennial Celebration of Soil Sciences (IUSS) on 19-21 May in Florence, Italy.