On the occasion of the Global Soil 2013, Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and Maria Betti, Director of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the European Commission, signed a 5-year Collaboration…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…