Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly – Sixth Session 11 – 13 June 2018 FAO HQ

1. Presenter name
Title presentation
Elena Havlicek – chairperson ESP
FOEN (CH)

2. EUROPEAN SOIL PARTNERSHIP
> EURASIAN SUBREGIONAL SOIL PARTNERSHIP
(ESAP IP, coordination/collaboration with ESP)

3. EURASIAN SUBREGIONAL SOIL PARTNERSHIP
New leadership 2018-2019
Chair: Gulchekhra Khasankhanova (Uzbekistan)
Vice-chair: Iuri Mosi (Moldova)

4. 2017-2018
ESP / EASP IMPLEMENTATION PLANS - HIGHLIGHTS
 Strengthening network(s)
 Fostering SSM practices
 Promoting soil science
 Disseminating knowledge
EUROPEAN SOIL PARTNERSHIP

5. PILLAR 1 WG CHAIR: Violette Geissen (Wageningen University NL)
Action 1
Identification of case studies with successfully implemented SSM
Outcome 1
Integrated map on European SSM case studies related to land use,
soil threats and pedoclimatic zones
EUROPEAN SOIL PARTNERSHIP PILLAR 1
 Fostering SSM practices

6. Land Use (Corine) Soil threats (JRC)Pedoclimatic zones (project iSQAPER)
> Combine maps
> Add case studies and networks from EU and national projects

7. Legend
Agro-forestry areas
Airports
Annual crops associated with permanent crops
Bare rocks
Beaches, dunes, sands
Broad-leaved forest
Burnt areas
Coastal lagoons
Complex cultivation patterns
Coniferous forest
Construction sites
Continuous urban fabric
Discontinuous urban fabric
Dump sites
Estuaries
Fruit trees and berry plantations
Glaciers and perpetual snow
Green urban areas
Industrial or commercial units
Inland marshes
Intertidal flats
Land principally occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation
Mineral extraction sites
Mixed forest
Moors and heathland
Natural grasslands
NODATA
Non-irrigated arable land
Olive groves
Pastures
Peat bogs
Permanently irrigated land
Port areas
Rice fields
Road and rail networks and associated land
Salines
Salt marshes
Sclerophyllous vegetation
Sea and ocean
Sparsely vegetated areas
Sport and leisure facilities
Transitional woodland-shrub
Vineyards
Water bodies
Water courses
Case studies per land use

8. Legend
pedoclimate_zones_codes
Pedo Climate Zone
Boreal to sub-boreal
Atlantic
Sub-oceanic
Northern sub-continental
Mediterranean semi-arid
Southern sub-continental
Mediterranean
Temperate mountainous
Case studies per pedoclimatic zones

9. Case studies per soil threat

10. Case studies per soil threat

11. Publications “Transaction of Eurasian Soil Partnership”
EURASIAN SOIL PARTNERSHIP PILLAR 2
 Disseminating knowledge

12. World Soil Day
Students’ initiatives:
• Open popular science lectures
• Photo exhibition «Nature & Soil
underfoot»
• Flash-mob World Soil Day
• Quest for schoolchildren «Save our
Soils»
• SOIL SLAM – scientific battle
• Competitions
EURASIAN SOIL PARTNERSHIP PILLAR 2
 Disseminating knowledge

13. SOIL PORTAL http://eurasian-soil-portal.info
EURASIAN SOIL PARTNERSHIP PILLAR 2
 Disseminating knowledge

14. PILLAR 3 WG CHAIR: Edoardo Costantini (CREA IT)
> European Joint Programme on Agricultural Soil Management: ESP
involvement
> Soil and Land Research Funding Plateform INSPIRATION : ESP as a
stakeholder (consultation, updating Strategic Research Agenda)
> European Research Council : request for the establishment of a
SOIL SCIENCE ERC PANEL
EUROPEAN SOIL PARTNERSHIP PILLAR 3
 Promoting soil science

15. PILLAR 3 WG CHAIR: Edoardo Costantini (CREA IT)
EUROPEAN SOIL PARTNERSHIP PILLAR 3
 Promoting soil science
> European Joint Programme on Agricultural Soil Management: ESP
involvement
> Soil and Land Research Funding Plateform INSPIRATION : ESP as a
stakeholder (consultation, updating Strategic Research Agenda)
> European Research Council : request the establishment of an SOIL
SCIENCE ERC PANEL

16. EURASIAN SOIL PARTNERSHIP PILLAR 3
Promote and support soil salinity studies in selected
topics to close identified gaps in knowledge
Small research grants : 5 projects selected
> Moldova, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Ukraine
> Reclamation, remediation, methodologies
 Promoting soil science

17. A bottom-up initiative in the Alpine region
ALPINE SOIL PARTNERSHIP
 Strengthening network(s)

18. > Promotion of SSM practices relevant and applicable to the Alps
> Organization adapted to local/regional decision makers
> Soil protection practiced/communicated in national languages
AlpSP FOLLOWS THE GSP/ESP ACTIVITIES

19.  Strengthening network(s)
EUROPEAN Soil Partnership
EURASIAN subregional Soil Partnership
Alpine Soil Partnership
National Soil Partnerships

20. EUROPEAN Soil Partnership
EURASIAN subregional Soil Partnership
Alpine Soil Partnership
National Soil Partnerships
5PILLARS
 Strengthening network(s)