World Soil Issues and sustainable
development: an agenda for action
40 years ISRIC – World Soil Information
Special Seminar 9th March 2006, Wageningen
Decision makers need up-to-date, accurate soil information to inform
policy, development, and day-to-day land and water management. But
they don’t always know it! “It is alarming to observe how little of the
land resource data investigated and mapped is actually used in
development or management…its lack of use is by no means always
related to irrelevance or the form in which it is presented…”
This one-day seminar will focus on today’s soil issues, soil use and
management: focussing on known knowns, that is to say what we
know we know, and how to make use of this knowledge; known
unknowns - what we know we don’t know; and unknown unknowns –
what we don’t know we don’t know – with the intention of drawing up
an agenda for international action.
Venue
ISRIC, lunch at Hotel school, drinks in World Soil Museum
Participation
€20 including lunch and drinks
Program
9.00
Timo Maukonen, UNEP Nairobi
- Introduction
9.00-9.45
Pedro Sanchez, Columbia Uni USA
- Soil fertility, nutrient depletion and nutrient
restoration in the tropics
9.45-10.30
David Dent,ISRIC Wageningen
- Global soil issues:-ISRIC in the world of soil
information
10.30-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-11.45
Anton Cerri , Brazil
11.45-12.30
Tom Veldkamp, Wageningen
- Soils as a global C sink
- Land evaluation, the interface between land use
and land, implications of land use change
12.30-14.00
Lunch
14.00-14.45
Nuhu Hatibu, ASARECA, Nairobi
- Blue water and green water, issues of soil
management
14.45-15.30
Hans Hurni CDE, Berne
- Soil policy: soils and policy
15.30-16.00
Tea break
16.00-17.00
Plenary: Chair Don Sparks, Delaware Uni, USA - An agenda for action
>17.00
Drinks in the World Soil Museum and presentation of ISRIC fellows