Global Soil Partnership

Workshop on the tools of the Global Soil Partnership in support to the Central Asia countries initiative for Land Management (CACILM-2)

17 August 2022 | online

The FAO Regional Project titled “Integrated management of natural resources in drought-prone and salt-affected agricultural production landscapes of Central Asia and Turkey (CACILM-2)” is funded by the Global Environment Facility. 

The representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, State Committee for Water Resources, Turkmen Academy of Sciences, Turkmen Agricultural University named after S.A. Niyazov, Dashoguz Turkmen Agricultural Institute, Administration of Dashoguz and Akhal Provinces, Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Commission for Sustainable Development of Central Asia spoke to an audience of 30 people interested in implementing the tools and programmes of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) at the national and local levels.

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PRESENTATIONS

Moderator: Rahmanberdi Hanekov, FAO Turkmenistan

13:00 – 13:10

Mergen Yusupov, Deputy Head of the Department of Coordination of International Environmental Cooperation and Projects, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection of Turkmenistan, CACILM-2 National project coordinator

13:10 – 13:30

Introduction of the participants

13:30 – 13:40

Introduction of the GSP structure and main areas of work (Russian)

Maria Konyushkova, GSP Secretariat 

13:40 – 13:50

Central Asia Countries Initiative for Land Management (CACILM-2): main goals and activity in Turkmenistan (Russian | Turkish)

Rahmanberdi Hanekov, National Project Manager

13:50 – 14:10

Global soil laboratory network (GLOSOLAN) and the example from the Eurasian region (RUSOLAN) 

Elena Shamrikova, Institute of Biology of Komi Science Center of the Ural Branch of the RAS, Chair of RUSOLAN

14:10 – 14:30

Global Soil Doctors programme

Carolina Olivera Sanchez, GSP Secretariat

14:30 – 14:50

Soil Doctors: implementation on the ground

Aizhan Karabayeva, FAO Kazakhstan

14:50 – 15:10

RecSOIL: the concept and examples from the field (Costa-Rica)

Natalia Rodriguez, GSP Secretariat

15:10 – 15:45

Q&A session

15:45 – 16:00

Way forward and conclusions of the meeting

Date
17 Aug 2022
Location
Online, Zoom platform