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Workshop – TG Commons
Sharing practices to recognize and support commons and collective tenure rights. Workshop to exchange practices, approaches, strategies for the recognition, protection and support of commons and collective tenure rights, input to the TG Commons
Find out more »6th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping
Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) is the creation and the population of a geographically referenced soil database generated at a given resolution by using field and laboratory observation methods coupled with environmental data through quantitative relationships. The key issues of digital soil mapping include the adoption of new mapping tools and techniques, data management systems, innovative delivery of soil data, and methods to analyze, integrate, and visualize soil and environmental datasets.
Find out more »Session – Africa Land Conference
How to Recognize, Protect and Support Commons and Collective Tenure Rights for Food Security and Wellbeing? Session to discuss the question of implementing communal and collective tenure rights, context of VGGT/TG Commons and F&G
Find out more »Workshop – Latin-American perspective of impacts on soil
Workshop - Latin-American perspective of impacts on soil of an increase in global agricultural production for the SDGs The session will take place on Nov 13 on a Latin-American perspective of impacts on soil of an increase in global agricultural production for the SDGs and the dinner will be on Nov 10 or 11th on the role of soil and land in the SDGs
Find out more »Workshop – A Learning Agenda for Soil Rehabilitation
To identify soil management practices and approaches to rehabilitate, mitigate and prevent soil degrdation
Find out more »UN Climate Change Conference 2014 (COP 20/CMP 10)
More than 190 countries adopted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - UNFCCC in 1992 aiming at stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions and at preventing dangerous anthropogenic disturbance of the climate system. UNFCCC is the main UN international treaty on climate change. It came into effect in 1994 and has been ratified by 195 countries (parties), including the European Union. The Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997. It implements the Convention and establishes binding targets on emission reduction. Since 2005, when…
Find out more »First Global Soil Biodiversity Conference
To meet the challenges of global changes while sustaining the productivity of natural and managed lands requires not only knowing the role of soil biota, but also implementing that knowledge. It is therefore critical that the growing scientific knowledge on the provision of vital ecosystem services by soil biodiversity is incorporated into future regional and national management and policy plans.
Find out more »Opening Event – International Year of Soil 2015
On the occasion of the World Soil Day on December 5, 2014 the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) in cooperation with the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the IASS will host the official opening event of the IYoS in Berlin. The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2015 the International Year of Soils (IYoS). At the same time, the year 2015 offers several important…
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