ISRIC recently launched an online resource library offering educational and technical soil information resources and tools for global users. The open-access resource library is designed for a diverse audience, including readers, learners, academic researchers, and professionals seeking specialised knowledge and practices related to soil information.

ISRIC is pleased to announce the release of its latest Annual Report, detailing the organisation's key achievements during 2022 and 2023.

A paper titled “A European soil organic carbon monitoring system leveraging Sentinel 2 imagery and the LUCAS soil database” was recently published in Geoderma. The paper is the direct scientific outcome of the European Space Agency (ESA) funded WorldSoils project.

ISRIC has initiated DNA sequencing of their reference soil collection. This collection comprises reference soil samples from some 1,100 profiles collected worldwide over the past six decades.

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.