EC-UBA-IASS together with experts from the communities of soils, land, science, policy and NGOs, are proposing a sustainable development goal to achieve a Land Degradation Neutral World and have developed a set of targets and sub-targets. Based on the decision…
Houses, traffic and industry: How does urbanization matter for soil?
The 7th International Conference of the Working Group Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas (SUITMA) of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) was held in Torun, Poland, 16-20 September 2013. Objective was to share the latest…
Umweltbundesamt: Global Soil Week 2013
21 October 2013
klimaretter: Rasanter Bodenverlust durch Erosion
20 October 2013
Launch Workshop: “Towards a European Regional/Sub-regional Soil Partnership”
FAO and IASS invite you to the Launch Workshop: “Towards a European Regional/Sub-regional Soil Partnership” to take place on the 31 October 2013 in the context of the 2nd Global Soil Week “Losing Ground” in Berlin, Germany. As per the…
Focus + wallstreet online: Experten warnen vor Verlust von Böden
17 October 2013
Final workshop of the IASS-IFAD project “Pro-Poor Resource Governance under Changing Climates”
Climate change aggravates the already existing vulnerability of poor rural people. In order to make livelihoods more resilient to climate change, both social and environmental dimensions of vulnerability must be addressed. Therefore, pro-poor adaptation to climate change can imply changes…
Soil issues go public: Global Soil Forum researchers featured in Rural Development Journal Rural21
Researchers of the Global Soil Forum (GSF) published two articles in the latest issue of Rural21 – The International Journal for Rural Development”. Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), together with his colleagues Alexander…