The Eurasian Soil Partnership
The Eurasian Soil Partnership (EASP) was established in November 2013, as a sub-regional soil partnership within the ESP, to address the specificities of the eastern European and Eurasian GSP members. The main goal for the EASP is the implementation of sustainable soil management practices at a wider scale, especially in areas affected by soil salinity, as reflected in the EASP implementation plan, which is reviewed and updated at the yearly EASP plenary meetings.
List of countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. See the list of GSP national focal points.
Governance
Chair: Murat Temirzhanov (Kazakhstan)
Vice-chair: Aliaksandr Chervan (Belarus)
Regional facilitator: Ms. Natalia Rodriguez Eugenio (GSP secretariat)
EASP Secretariat (Russian Federation): Mr. Pavel Krasilnikov - Executive Secretary, Alexey Sorokin (Pillar 1), Anna Kontoboytseva (Pillar 2), Maria Konyushkova (Pillar 3), Oleg Golozubov (Pillar 4) and Olga Yakimenko (Pillar 5).
The following EASP Steering Committee members took over the leadership for the pillars of action.
Pillar 1 Chair: Mr. Hakki E. Erdogan (Türkiye)
Pillar 2 Chair: Ms. Elena Sukhacheva (Russian Federation)
Pillar 3 Chair: TBC
Pillar 4 Chair: Mr. Iurii Rozloga (Moldova)
Pillar 5 Chair: Mr. Hukmatullo Ahmadov (Tajikistan)
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee for the Eurasian Soil Partnership includes the representatives of the following institutions:
- Moscow State University (Russia)
- Dokuchaev Soil Science Institure (Russia)
- Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Türkiye)
- Institute of Land Management (Kyrgyzstan)
Recent EASP events and trainings
Annual meetings | Details |
|---|---|
2023 Tashkent | Sixth Eurasian Soil Partnership plenary meeting, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 23 - 24 May 2023 Details of the event | Agenda | Presentations | Report EN | Report RU |
2022 Online | Extraordinary meeting of the Eurasian Soil Partnership plenary meeting, Online, 21 December 2022 |
2019 Chisinau | Fifth Eurasian Soil Partnership plenary meeting, Chisinau, Moldova, 30 Sep - 1 Oct 2019 Details of the event | Agenda | Presentations | Report (English | Russian) | Photogallery | Chişinău Communiqué (English | Pусский) |
2017 Tashkent | Fourth Eurasian Soil Partnership plenary meeting, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 13 - 14 Dec 2017 Details of the event | Report | More | Tashkent Communiqué (EN | RU) |
2016 Bishkek | Third Eurasian Soil Partnership plenary meeting, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 29 Feb - 02 Mar 2016 Details of the event | Bishkek communiqué (EN | RU)| Report | Presentations |
2015 Izmir | Second Eurasian Soil Partnership plenary meeting, Izmir, Turkey, 16 - 18 Jun 2015 Details of the event | Izmir communiqué (RU) | Agenda | Report | Presentations |
2014 Samarkand | First Eurasian Soil Partnership plenary meeting, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 10 - 11 Sep 2014 |
2013 Moscow | Launch of the Eurasian Soil Partnership, Moscow, Russian Federation, 18 - 20 Nov 2013 Details of the event | Moscow communiqué (EN | RU) | Presentations | List of participants | Photogallery |
Trainings | Details |
2017 Kharkiv | Soil salinity management training, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 25 - 29 Sep 2017 |
2017 Izmir | GSOCmap training, Izmir, Turkey, 21 - 25 Aug 2017 |
Main events | Details |
2022 online | EUROSOLAN, Regional Soil Laboratory Network for Europe and Eurasia: Fourth meeting, online, 5-6 Oct 2022 |
2019 Chisinau | Launch of EUROSOLAN, the Regional Soil Laboratory Network for Eurasia, Chisinau, Moldova, 2 - 5 Sep 2019 |
2019 Kyiv | Launch of the Ukrainian Soil Partnership, Kyiv, Ukraine, 24 - 25 May 2019 Details of the event | Press release (EN | RU) | Highlight (EN | RU) | Photogallery |