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The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the ability of societies to survive an extreme global situation. Throughout history, humanity has gone through many cataclysms and disasters, but this is the first time in the Anthropocene that we face a crisis spanning the whole planet. The global character of this crisis sheds a new light on how to ensure food security, which will increasingly depend on sufficient areas of fertile agricultural soils close to population centres. Healthy soils form our most necessary natural resource for food production, on which human existence is dependent.

In the article published in the SOIL journal, the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils shares its understanding of the crucial role played by sustainable soil management in the new global reality. Appropriate soil management is imperative for solving and anticipating food security and nutrition requirements that governments and individuals will face in the post-pandemic world.

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14-07-2020

The Global Soil Partnership (GSP), had the pleasure to interview Dr Diana H. Wall, one of the world key experts in soil biodiversity. Dr Diana Wall is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the keynote speaker for the Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity (GSOBI)—which is postponed to 19 - 22 April 2021—and the Director & Professor of Colorado State University, School of Global Environmental Sustainability and the department of Biology in Fort Collins, Colorado. Dr Diana Wall is the 2013 Laureate of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. 

The online interview was conducted through the Zoom platform.

10-07-2020

The Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN) established in the framework of FAO and the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) is launching today the first ever-global customs control procedure database SIMPLE - Soil IMPort Legislation.  

SIMPLE DATABASE

29-06-2020

In 2017, the Global Soil Partnership established the Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN) harmonize soil laboratory methods and data, and for building the capacity of laboratories in soil analysis. This effort will (1) make soil information across laboratories, countries and regions comparable, interpretable, (2) build a set of agreed harmonization principles, (3) improve quality assurance and control of soil analysis, and (4) promote information and experience exchange.

12-06-2020