Progress Report
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The document outlines the work performed by the ITPS since the 10th working session, covering various pillars related to soil biodiversity, soil pollution assessment, and sustainable land management practices. It includes reports on significant events like the global symposiums, workshops, and meetings, as well as educational initiatives and recognitions such as the Glinka World Soil Prize. Additionally, activities of ITPS members are documented, highlighting their contributions to soil science and management across multiple regions and conferences.
Progress Report
- 1. 4. Report of the work performed since the 10th working session Rosa M Poch – ITPS Chair
- 3. Pillar 1 • State of Biodiversity publication: draft Global Assessment of Soil Biodiversity • Establishment of the International Network of Salt- Affected Soils: review of concept note • Review the Global assessment of soil pollution report
- 4. Pillar 2 • Soil Doctor programme: revision of educational material • Glinka World Soil Prize 2019: Prof. Xu Minggang • King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award 2019: Asociación Costarricense de la Ciencia del Suelo
- 5. Pillar 3 • “Feasible and regionally contextualized guidelines for measuring, mapping, monitoring and reporting on SOC stocks and SOC changes” • Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity: concept note, call • Global Symposium on Soil Salinity: concept note • Outcomes GSER • Review of outcome documents • Publication of Special Issues - ongoing • Land Degradation and Development • Land Use Policy • SOIL • International Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
- 6. Pillar 4 • CGSOCmap: GSOCmap Technical Report (V1.5) review • GSSmap: Technical specifications of the soil salinity map review • GSOSseq map: Review of the technical specifications for country-driven SOC sequestration potential map • GSERmap: GSERmap Working Document review • Black soils: definition
- 7. Pillar 5 • GLOSOLAN (?)
- 8. Activities of ITPS members (1/4) Planning Meeting Southwest Pacific Regional Partnership, Brisbane, October 2019 Megan Balks, Siosiua Halavatau Pacific Week of Agriculture in Samoa: presentations to 50 students at USP, NUS, Leififi College, and Avele College; stands promoting the PSP and the Pacific Soils Portal (a database/soil map GIS), under development as part of the PSP initiative, October 2019 Global Forum on Innovations for Marginalized Environments (GFIME) hosted by the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) in Dubai, 20 Nov; including the launch of the International Network for Salt-Affected Soils (INSAS) Kutaiba M. Hassan Presidential lecture, National Seminar on Developments in Soil Science, and special symposium "Digital Soil Science for empowering small and marginal farmers“; 15-18th November 2019 at Varanasi, India Ashok Patra Meeting 6th of the GSP Pillar 4 Working Group , August 2019 Costanza CalzolariMeeting 5th of International Network of Soil Information Institutions (INSII), October 2019 Plenary Meeting of the Eurasian Soil Partnership (Moldova 30 September-1 October 2019) Maria KonyushkovaSecond meeting of the International Network of Black Soils (Moldova, 4-5 October, 2019)
- 9. Activities of ITPS members (2/4) Expert witness at special heairing on the status of soils in the Senate of Canada. May 2019 David Lobb Review of the UNCCD-SPI Objective 1.1. technical report “Soil Carbon benefits of Sustainable Land Management Practices”, April 2019 Provided Observer Organizations’ (ITPS) views on the overall structure of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Synthesis Report (SYR) as part of the scoping exercise. July 2019. Keynote address at IUSS Pedometrics 2019 Conference on ITPS activities and need for pedometrics research. Guelph, Canada, June 2019. Presentations and consultation with staff of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and U Guelph, on soil and land databases, modeling and mapping- Guelph, August 2019 Organization and presentation at the 3rd National Health Summit, hosted by the Soil Conservation Council of Canada; Winippeg, Manitoba, October 2019 Meetings with consortium of soil scientists on soil databases in Canada, November 2019 Announced World Soil Day at a Soil Conservation Council of Canada Awards Ceremony in Winnipeg, Manitoba; November 2019 Organizer of the symposium: Global Initiative for sustainable soil management, within the Congresso Brasileiro de Ciência do Solo (CBCS), 21 - 26 July 2019; Cuiabá, Brazil Lúcia Anjos
- 10. Activities of ITPS members (3/4) Participation to Land and Water Days Cairo (Egypt) 31 march - 4 April (FAO) Rafla Attia Participation to workshop on LDN and NDCS, 9-12 july in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) organized by African Development Bank Organisation of Side Event: Decision Support for Mainstreaming and Scaling out of Sustainable Land Management to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN); and participation to Panel of side event organized by FAO during the COP 14 UNCCD, September 2019, New Delhi, India. Organization of final international closing workshop Decision support for the integration and extension of sustainable land management, Tunisia, 21-23 october2019 Participation to Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS) workshop on application of remote sensing to support decision makers, Tunisia, October 2019. Participation to IKI Project regional training in Barcelona: The Paris Agreement in action: upscaling forest and landscape restoration to achieve nationally determined contributions; on green and climate finance, 4-7 November 2019 in Barcelona Participation in the regional workshop “Use of tools of the World Soil Alliance for informed decision making, sustainable land, and land management in Latin America and the Caribbean." May 20 - 21st, 2019, Quito – Ecuador. Marta María Bolaños BenavidesOrganization of XIX Colombian Congress of Soil Science, Cartagena de Indias, October 23th to 25th. Presentation: Enzymes as Sensitive Indicators of Fertility and Soil Health and Organization of the World Soil Day Celebration in Colombia.
- 11. Activities of ITPS members (4/4) COP14, United Nations, Convention to Combat Desertification UNCCD, New Delhi, India, 2-13 September 2019 Samuel FranckeForum Healthy soil for sustainable agriculture, (World Soil Day), Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture, 5 December 2019, Lima, Peru Steering Committee of the European Soil Partnership, Rome 18-19 November 2019 European ITPS members Second General Assembly of the Chinese Soil and Water Conservation Society – Several keynote presentations, discussions and visits; celebration of the World Soil Day. Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Yangling (China), 4-10 December 2019 Rosa M Poch and GSP secretariat Keynote speech: Soil Sustainable Management (SSM) - relevance of researches and actions from decision makers and governments, Congresso Brasileiro de Ciência do Solo (CBCS), 21 - 26 July 2019; Cuiabá, Brazil Rosa M. Poch Panel discussion: The way forward; within Conference: Soil and the SDGs: challenges and need for action, Brussels, November 2019 Presentation of the Soil Map of Catalonia 1:250,000. ICGC, Barcelona, September 2019
Editor's Notes
- #3: Hidden work Difficult to coordinate / clear tasks Different progress rates among tasks