- EcoSSSoil International Symposium, Republic of Korea -
Keynote speaker
The great challenge: Reducing environmental impacts of food production
Global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion
Human activity and related land use change are the primary cause of accelerated soil erosion, which has substantial implications for nutrient and carbon cycling, land productivity and in turn, worldwide socio-economic conditions. We challenge the previous annual soil erosion reference values as our estimate, of 35.9 Pg yr−1 of soil eroded in 2012, is at least two times lower. Our findings indicate a potential overall increase in global soil erosion driven by cropland expansion. The greatest increases are predicted to occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America and Southeast Asia.
21st World Congress of Soil Science
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Human activity and related land use change are the primary cause of accelerated soil erosion. This has substantial implications for nutrient and carbon cycling, land productivity and thus the worldwide socio-economic conditions. In this study we provide quantitative, thorough estimates of soil erosion at the global scale by means of an unprecedentedly high-resolution (250 x 250 m grid), spatially distributed.
Keynote speaker
UN Global Symposium on Soil Erosion
The Global Symposium on Soil Erosion (GSER19), ‘Stop soil erosion, Save our future’ was held from 15-17 May 2019, at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Headquarters in Rome
Keynote
Global Soil Erosion Research Forum
Yangling, China. The Global Soil Erosion Research Forum. This forum was jointly sponsored by the World Association of Soil and the Water Conservation, the DesertNet International and the Chinese Society of Soil and Water Conservation, and organized by the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation of CAS&MWR and the State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on Loess Plateau.
Speaker
OECD-Luke Workshop
The Use of New Technologies for Agri-Environmental Indicators to Support Effective Policy Monitoring, Evaluation and Design
Helsinki, Finland. Information technologies – such as high resolution satellite imagery and agricultural technologies that enable control of farm equipment and application of agricultural inputs at high precision – are already shaping agriculture around the globe. These technologies are generating “Big Data”, i.e. data being produced at accelerated rates and at very large scales.
Invited speaker
Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Headquarters in Rome. Over 450 participants among which scientists and practitioners working in related fields, from 111 countries and all geographical regions gathered together for the Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon.
EC JRC workshop
Speaker
This workshop, which was held on the EC JRC-Ispra site, addressed issues regarding how local/regional modelling results can be upscaled (or applied) to the European scale. The workshop also served as a follow-up of recent JRC modelling developments and published maps on soil erosion by water and wind.