To support the countries in developing SOC reference values, GSP organized a worldwide capacity development program aimed at providing guidance to national experts on collecting, managing, modelling and mapping SOC data. The training workshops on soil data management were already part of the GSP activities before the GSOC17. Since 2017, the capacity training fully focused on soil organic carbon.
GSP capacity development program was able to reach over 150 experts from 110 countries covering 60% of the world area:
Training location | Participating countries |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela |
Accra, Ghana | Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Tchad, Djibouti, DRC, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia |
Amman, Jordan | Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen |
Rabat, Morocco | Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia |
Almaty, Kazakhstan | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan |
Bangkok, Thailand | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos , PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam |
Wageningen, the Netherlands | Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, DRC, Egypt, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Paraguay, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia |
Aguascalientes, Mexico | Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Lucia, Suriname, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago |
Nairobi, Kenya | Burkina Faso, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Benin, Rwanda, Gambia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Niger, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, Mozambique, Cabo Verde, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Tchad, DRC, Swaziland, Djibouti, Guinea, Botswana, Eritrea, Senegal, Togo |
Izmir, Turkey | Turkey |
Montevideo, Uruguay | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela |
Tehran, Iran | Iran |
Phnom Penh, Cambodia | Cambodia |
São Tomé and Príncipe | São Tomé and Príncipe |
By the end of the training courses, participants were able to collect and rescue legacy soil organic data, compile and harmonize SOC datasets for updating their national soil information systems, calculate SOC stocks, model SOC spatial distribution based on digital soil mapping techniques, and develop accurate digital SOC maps.