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…
Linking the stakeholders on land governance
Judith Rosendahl, Alexander Müller and Matheus Alves Zanella from the Global Soil Forum (GSF) attended the stakeholder conference on “Scaling-up Strategies to Secure Community Land and Resource Rights“ from 19-20 September in Interlaken, Switzerland. It was organised by Oxfam, the…
Talking soil awareness and exchanging ideas
The European Network on Soil Awareness (ENSA) held its third meeting at the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, UK, from 19-20 September 2013. The conference participants were an international mix of practitioners and scientists working on soil awareness, as well…
“Let’s Talk About Soil” nominated for animago AWARD
The nominees have now been announced for the animago AWARD. Among the candidates for the 2013 awards is the IASS’s animated film “Let’s Talk About Soil”, which has been nominated in the category “Best Visualisation”. DIGITAL PRODUCTION magazine has presented…
Rural21: Governing the transformation of soils must urgently be improved
23 August 2013
germanwatch: Die Global Soil Week lenkt Aufmerksamkeit auf die vergessene Ressource Böden
18 July 2013