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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land and ecosystem management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow the latest IUSS Alert 186 of 20 December 2020.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

*Amir Kassam *

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*Global CA-CoP*

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IUSS NewsSeason’s Greetings

The IUSS Executive Committee and the IUSS Secretariat would like to thank
all IUSS Standing Committees, Divisions, Commissions and Working Groups,
Honorary members and Full members as well cooperating partners for their
support in this year of the pandemic to bring forward soil science as a
valuable contribution to solve global challenges.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas as well as peace, hope and health.
<https://www.iuss.org/media/seasons_greetings_from_the_iuss.mp4>
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IUSS – FAO-GSP Children’s book contest on Soil Biodiversity

IUSS and FAO-GSP together launched a scientific children's book contest on
Soil Biodiversity in the framework of World Soil Day 2020. The motto was
"Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity". FAO, IUSS and GSP invited all
those interested in soil and biodiversity - soil scientists, researchers,
professors, teachers, classrooms, individual students, soil practitioners,
designers, photographers or experts from any professional background - to
submit their freestyle book proposal by 10 November 2020.

Read more: *
<https://www.iuss.org/international-decade-of-soils/>https://www.iuss.org/international-decade-of-soils/
<https://www.iuss.org/international-decade-of-soils/>*

Flyer:

[image: IUSS – FAO-GSP Children’s book contest on Soil Biodiversity]
<https://www.iuss.org/media/gsp_iuss_booklet_contest.jpg>

The winner stood to receive a cash prize of 1 000 USD, with the second and
third prize receiving a cash prize of 500 USD and 250 USD respectively from
IUSS and FAO’s GSP. The winners were announced on 4 December 2020.

*Winners of the IUSS-FAO-GSP Children’s Book Contest on Soil Biodiversity*

IUSS, FAO and GSP are pleased to announce the winners of the Children’s
Book Contest on Soil Biodiversity:

1st place: ‘The science & spectacle of Soil Life by Roly Poly’, created by
JiaJia Hamner (freelance, United States) and Sharada Keats (Global Alliance
for Improved Nutrition, United Kingdom).

Download the book: * The home of life. I am a living soil (42 MB)
<https://www.iuss.org/index.php?rex_media_type=download&rex_media_file=1_ref12.pdf>*

2nd place: ‘Soil biodiversity. What's most important?’ by Katelyn Lutes and
Benjamin Ellert (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada).

Download the book: * Soil biodiversity. What's most important? (134 MB)
<https://www.iuss.org/index.php?rex_media_type=download&rex_media_file=2_ref31.pdf>*

3rd place: ‘The home of life. I am a living soil’, by Claudio Lucas
Capeche, Julia Franco Stuchi, Milena Pessoa Pagliacci, Fabrício de Martino,
Alexandre Abrantes Cotta de Mello, Antonio Augusto Bianchi, Maya Stuchi
Tedjini, Kelita Carlos Andrade (Embrapa Solos, Brazil).

Download the book: *The home of life. I am a living soil (36MB)
<https://www.iuss.org/index.php?rex_media_type=download&rex_media_file=3_ref69.pdf>*

All the first ten classified and awarded books as well as the mentions of
honour can be found at *
<http://www.fao.org/world-soil-day/bookcontest/contest-results/en/>http://www.fao.org/world-soil-day/bookcontest/contest-results/en/
<http://www.fao.org/world-soil-day/bookcontest/contest-results/en/>*

IUSS, FAO and GSP received over 100 books from 60 countries for the
contest. Launched in the run-up to WSD2020, the book contest on soil
biodiversity gave visibility to the importance of soil organisms and raised
awareness on the urgency of protecting soil biodiversity.

Congratulations to the winners and finalists and a big thank you to all
participants!
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‘Soilutions’ calendar

Following a poster contest ‘Soilutions’ to find new solutions for soil
problems, which the IUSS launched in 2019, it was decided to use the best
12 posters plus a cover poster to produce a permanent ‘Soilutions’
calendar. The calendar was made available for download on the IUSS website.
Printed copies will be made available in the beginning of 2021 and can be
ordered from *[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>*.

Read more: *
<https://www.iuss.org/international-decade-of-soils/>https://www.iuss.org/international-decade-of-soils/
<https://www.iuss.org/international-decade-of-soils/>*

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YouTube videos of the British Soil Science Society shared during the Inter
Congress Meeting

Below please find links to two YouTube videos about the 22nd World Congress
of Soil Sciences (WCSS22), which the British Soil Science Society shared
during the IUSS Inter Congress Meeting, which took place virtually 18-23
November 2020.

WCSS 2022 – Arts and Tours Programme
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaQI4NTv1X0&t=2s>

WCSS 2022 – Welcome to Glasgow!
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW--y1T069Y&t=2s>

The video *#Grounded <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkUimkhb1vY>* shows
the importance of soils for humankind. Soils are our past present and
future. We must stay #Grounded
<https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Grounded>. For more
information on how you can reconnect with soils, visit:
*www.soils.org.uk/grounded
<http://www.soils.org.uk/grounded>*.
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Young Micromorphology Publication Awards (YMPA) 2021 - Reminder

Commission 1.1 - Soil Morphology and Micromorphology will award the Young
Micromorphologist's Publication Award every 2 years: at each International
Working Meeting on Soil Micromorphology, and at each World Congress of Soil
Science. Considering that the planned IWMSM2020 meeting in Krakow has been
postponed to 2021 due to the COVID19 emergency, the award has also been
postponed accordingly. It is planned to have two close YMPA awards
(IWMSM-2021 and WCSS-2022).

The purpose of this award is to encourage and promote the use of soil
micromorphology by young scientists. The award will be given to one, or
more, young scientist who has published research in the preceding 4 years,
that is an outstanding contribution to the principles, methodology, or
application of micromorphology. The author must be less than 35 years old
at the time of acceptance of the publication, and he/she must be the first
author. The paper must be published in an international journal with wide
distribution, but not necessarily a scientific journal. The award is not
restricted to papers published in the English language only.

The Award Committee is composed of Fabio Scarciglia, Irina Kovda, Peter
Kühn and Chair (Fabio Terribile) and Vice-chair (Richard Heck) of
Commission 1.1.

Applicants should submit the following: (1) a pdf file of the paper(s) to
be considered for the award, (2) proof of age for eligibility (ex:
photocopy of ID or other document with birthdate), and (3) a cover letter
explaining why they should be considered for this award. Letters of support
from senior micromorphologists, outlining the qualities of the
publication(s) are also welcome.

*Applications* are *due December 31, 2020*.

Send by email to: Prof. Fabio Terribile *[log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>*

* <https://www.boku.wzw.tum.de/index.php?id=wrb-teaching-material&L=0>*
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General News EGU 2021 Call for Abstracts - Sustainable Development by 2030:
Developing an agenda for soils

Chairs: Daniel Evans, Victoria Janes-Bassett, Panos Panagos, Saskia Visser

By 2030, the Agenda for Sustainable Development – the 17 ‘Sustainable
Development Goals’ – are intended to be achieved. The role of soil science,
and the work between soil scientists and other disciplines, will be
paramount over the coming decade. In particular, healthy and sustainable
soil management plans will need to ensure that soils continue to deliver
services to ecosystems, societies, and economies. Global climate change and
the burgeoning demands from a growing world population are set to place
escalating pressures on soils, suggesting an urgent need to build
resilience into soil management whilst also reversing current global trends
of soil degradation.

In this session, we aim to develop an evidence-based and solution-focused
agenda for achieving healthy, sustainable, and resilient soil systems by
2030. We particularly welcome submissions that either:

- Highlight the advancements made over the past decade (2010-2020) in
enhancing soil health, sustainability and/or resilience;

- Suggest further ways of fostering greater health, sustainability and/or
resilience in soil systems over the decade to come;

- Consider how research agendas can be better integrated in order to
sustain and enhance the delivery of multiple soil-derived ecosystem
services.

Abstracts that make explicit links to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
are encouraged, as well as those that demonstrate the importance of
cross-disciplinary work between soil scientists and other divisions of
geoscience. We strongly encourage abstract submissions from Early Career
Scientists, particularly those that have not previously attended the EGU,
to whom we can offer abstract support and guidance. The abstract *submission
deadline is 13 January 2021*, 13:00 CET.

Submit an abstract here: *https://tinyurl.com/EGUdecade
<https://tinyurl.com/EGUdecade>*

Follow the session using the hashtag: #EGUdecade
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Land and Soil Management Award

This prize rewards land use and soil management practices that mitigate
soil threats i.e. soil degra­dation, erosion, reduction of organic matter
content, diffuse contamination, and compaction as well as the reduction of
soil biodiversity, salinization, sealing, flooding and landslides. In doing
so, the award sheds light on outstanding achievements, encouraging new
concepts of land and soil protec­tion and their implementation in land
management, as well as enhancing awareness about the im­portance of land
and soil functions.

Who can apply? Farmers, landowners, land managers, groups of farmers, on
their own or in collaboration with research institutes, universities and/or
private companies.

The call is open for projects from all European countries.

Deadline: *January **20, 2021*

Read more: *https://www.europeanlandowners.org/awards/soil-land-award
<https://www.europeanlandowners.org/awards/soil-land-award>*

[From ESDAC Newsletter No 126 (December 2020)]

* <https://isda-africa.com/>*
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Multispectral reflectance data LUCAS 2015 are available

Last October, ESDAC announced the release of the LUCAS 2015 soil dataset.
Now, also the Mul­tispectral reflectance data are available for the 20,000+
soil samples of the LUCAS 2015 SOIL campaign. These data, together with the
spectral library of the LUCAS 2009 SOIL campaign, will allow scientists to
explore the potential of soil spectroscopy for de­termining accurately soil
properties and demonstrate its operational robustness.

Read more: https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/lucas2015-topsoil-data

[From ESDAC Newsletter No 126 (December 2020)]
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Check out the Soil Biodiversity Observation Network

Humans depend on living soil resources for their nutrition, recreation, and
health needs. Yet, the current and future response of global soil
biodiversity to human activities and the consequences for ecosystems and
their essential functions remains unknown. Implementing operational and
sustained programs to detect changes to soil biodiversity and ecosystem
functioning as a result of human activities is critical to understanding
and managing impacts on natural capital and ecosystem services. Constituted
as a global *Soil Biodiversity Observation Network (Soil BON)
<https://geobon.org/bons/thematic-bon/soil-bon/>*, this group is working in
partnership with the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI) and other
international partners to make soil biodiversity and ecosystem function
observations available to ensure living soil resources are sustainably
conserved and managed.

Read more: *
<https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/news-2/2020/11/23/soil-bon-collaboration>https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/news-2/2020/11/23/soil-bon-collaboration
<https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/news-2/2020/11/23/soil-bon-collaboration>*

[From GSBI Newsletter - December 2020]
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Take a Survey on Functional Traits of Soil Fauna

Please consider taking the following survey from Dr. Anton Potapov of
EUdapobase, a COST Action Plan, if you use or are planning to use traits of
soil fauna in your research. It should take about 5-10 minutes to complete.
Feel free to disseminate the survey to your fellow soil researchers.

Take the survey: *
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePezp8io1fbjj0yj6P64zN5mbri1zX1m_XnYU-JZWOHxdpQQ/viewform>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePezp8io1fbjj0yj6P64zN5mbri1zX1m_XnYU-JZWOHxdpQQ/viewform
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePezp8io1fbjj0yj6P64zN5mbri1zX1m_XnYU-JZWOHxdpQQ/viewform>*

[From GSBI Newsletter - December 2020]
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Soil arthropod mesofauna takes the stage: advances from whole-community
haplotype-level metabarcoding

Our understanding of the spatial structure and the underlying processes of
community assembly of soil biodiversity have increased dramatically in the
last years. However, this knowledge is still strongly unbalanced across
taxonomic groups, a situation which hampers the development of an
integrative framework for soil biodiversity. In particular, there is a
pronounced shortage for soil arthropods, in part because the implementation
of high-throughput sequencing to this soil biodiversity fraction has seen
comparative little and delayed progress in adapting and exploiting these
tools.

Read more: *
<https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath-our-feet/2020/11/15/soil-arthropod-mesofauna-takes-the-stage-advances-from-whole-community-haplotype-level-metabarcoding>https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath-our-feet/2020/11/15/soil-arthropod-mesofauna-takes-the-stage-advances-from-whole-community-haplotype-level-metabarcoding
<https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath-our-feet/2020/11/15/soil-arthropod-mesofauna-takes-the-stage-advances-from-whole-community-haplotype-level-metabarcoding>*

[From GSBI Newsletter - December 2020]
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Soil Biodiversity for Kids

Check out the new special collection in Frontiers for Young Minds on soil
biodiversity. This collection includes an article by Felix Gottschall and
colleagues on the importance of conserving soil biodiversity called, "Can
we save the beast by conserving the beauty?"

Read more: *
<https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2020.547740>https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2020.547740
<https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2020.547740>*

[From GSBI Newsletter - December 2020]
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Sounding Soil

Initiated by Markus Maeder, a Swiss musicologist, ‘Sounding Soil’ is an
interdisciplinary research project that studies the sounds of the ground.
To put it simply, this project, which will end in 2021, analyses how and
why soils emit different sounds depending on their use. The interim
assessment is as follows: the greater the diversity of organisms living in
the soil, the more complex the sound it emits.

‘Sounding Soil’ is a project involving six institutions: the Zurich
University of the Arts (ZHdK), the Foundation for Ecological Development
Biovision, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape
Research (WSL), the National Soil Observatory (NABO), the Institute for
Terrestrial Ecosystems (ETH Zurich) and the Research Institute for Organic
Agriculture (FiBL).

Listen to the sounds of soil: *
<https://www.soundingsoil.ch/en/>https://www.soundingsoil.ch/en/
<https://www.soundingsoil.ch/en/>*

[From *Le* *Monde de l'Agriculture Régénérative**, *December 2020, original
article only available in French]
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The Global Soil Doctors Programme

Soil Doctors are champion farmers who assist and train farmers in their
community.

The Global Soil Doctors Programme provides soil doctors with training,
educational material and soil testing kits to build capacity on the
principles of soil science and promote the practice of sustainable soil
management. They become the focal points to associations involved in
promoting the global programme and work closely with government agencies,
research centers, soil science societies, universities, NGOs, and more.

Read more: *
<http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/pillars-action/2-awareness-raising/soil-doctor/en/>http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/pillars-action/2-awareness-raising/soil-doctor/en/
<http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/pillars-action/2-awareness-raising/soil-doctor/en/>*
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Movie ‘Keep soil alive’

Our mission: Keep #Soil alive! Let's focus on protecting our soils before
this process becomes irreversible.

Watch the movie: https://tinyurl.com/y2rg94ak
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Conferences, Meetings and Workshops

*The outbreak of the Corona virus is clearly a rapidly evolving situation.
The organizers of the meetings listed below are constantly reviewing the
situation in the light of global and country-specific advice to inform
decisions to minimize the additional risks to attendees, their communities
and those living in the meeting’s host country. *

*The IUSS will also continue to monitor the situation, and advise that
prior to attending meetings our members review up to date information from
their country’s government, the WHO and from the host country to ensure
that everyone’s health and wellbeing remains a priority.*
2021 "GSBI Speaks" Webinar Series

Join us for our next webinar, "*First Global Soil Biodiversity Assessment:
From science to policy - Part 2"* which will be held on January 21, 2021 at
8am - 9:30am MT; 3pm - 4:30pm GMT; 4pm -5:30pm CET

Read more: *
<https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/webinars-1>https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/webinars-1
<https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/webinars-1>*

[From GSBI Newsletter - December 2020]
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3rd ISMC Conference – Advances in Soil Systems Modeling

18-22 May 2021, Tianjin, China.

The Conference will be hosted as virtual event.

Deadline for submitting abstracts: 14 March 2021

Early-bird registration deadline: 18 April 2021     Late registration
deadline: 3 May 2021

Conference website: *
<https://soil-modeling.org/ismc-conference/ismc-conference>https://soil-modeling.org/ismc-conference/ismc-conference
<https://soil-modeling.org/ismc-conference/ismc-conference>*

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International Colloquium on Soil Zoology

16-21 August 2021 *!new date!*

Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy

Early bird registration: 1 March – 31 May 2021

Website: * <https://icsz2020.eurac.edu/>https://icsz2020.eurac.edu/
<https://icsz2020.eurac.edu/>*
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2022Global Conference on Sandy Soils

30 May – 3 June 2022 (*postponed from 2020*)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Deadline for Abstract submission is March 31, 2022.

The papers from the conference will be published in the Progress of Soil
Science Series (Springer).

Read more: * <https://sandysoils.org/>https://sandysoils.org/
<https://sandysoils.org/>*

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*For the complete list of upcoming events, please see the event calendar on
the IUSS website: **
<https://www.iuss.org/meetings-events/>https://www.iuss.org/meetings-events/
<https://www.iuss.org/meetings-events/>*
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New publications Soil Sciences Education: Global Concepts and Teaching

Edited by Takashi Kosaki, Rattan Lal, Laura Bertha Reyes Sánchez. Published
in the CATENA series GeoEcology essays in December 2020; 198 pages, 96
figures, 28 tables, 17 x 24 cm, US-ISBN: 1-59326-272-8, ISBN
978-3-510-65523-6. The book can be ordered from the IUSS Secretariat
(*[log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>*) at the price of EUR 29.90 (plus shipping
costs); reduced price for IUSS members: EUR 25.00 (plus shipping costs).

Who knows, knows of, or even has awareness of soils? If many more people
knew about soils, the land surface, which soil, water, flora, fauna and
ourselves inhabit, our planet could not have suffered from the variety of
global environmental problems that it suffers from today.

The International Union of Soil Sciences has identified education and
public awareness of soils and soil sciences as one of the most important
goals of the International Decade of Soils 2015-2024, which is reflected in
this book.

This book addresses readers primarily involved in teaching soils,
geosciences, environment, ecosystems, art, etc., in schools, and who serve
at museums, educational or extension organizations, NPOs, NGOs, etc. Its
authors provide a basic framework and a collection of good practices
currently used in soil and soil sciences education to make students aware
of soils and their importance. Specifically, this publication strives to
enable readers to learn and share whatever is best suited to fit their
particular requirements.

This book consists of three parts. Part I comprises concept, philosophy and
tenets of soil sciences education for formulating its curricula at
different levels from pre-school children to adult citizens. Part II is a
collection of good practices of soil sciences education which have been
indigenously developed, tested and proven to be useful and efficient in
countries all over the world, i.e., four from Africa and Asia; three from
Europe; seven from North and South America; and two from Oceania. The
material presented in the book provides a good start for promoting soil and
soil sciences to children, students, the general public and policy and
decision makers globally. Part III is dedicated to guiding the future of
soil sciences education based on past and current experiences.

Read more: *
<http://www.schweizerbart.com/9783510655236>http://www.schweizerbart.com/9783510655236
<http://www.schweizerbart.com/9783510655236>*

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2020 Soil science challenges in a new era: A transdisciplinary overview of
relevant topics.

By Rodrigo-Comino, Jesus; López-Vicente, Manuel; Kumar, Vinod;
Rodríguez-Seijo, Andrés; Valkó, Orsolya; Rojas, Claudia; Reza Pourghasemi,
Hamid; Salvati, Luca; Bakr, Noura; Vaudour, Emmanuelle; Brevik, Eric C.;
Radziemska, Maja; Pulido, Manuel; Di Prima, Simone; Dondini, Marta; de
Vries, Wim; Santos, Erika S.; Mendonça-Santos, Maria de Lourdes; Yu, Yang;
Panagos, Panos. In: Air, Soil and Water Research. 13: 1–17

Read more: *http://doi.org/10.1177/1178622120977491
<http://doi.org/10.1177/1178622120977491>*
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State of Knowledge of Soil Biodiversity - Status, challenges and
potentialities. Report 2020.

By FAO, ITPS, GSBI, SCBD and EC. Dec. 2020. Rome, FAO. 618 pages, ISBN
978-92-5-133582-6, *
<https://doi.org/10.4060/cb1928en>https://doi.org/10.4060/cb1928en
<https://doi.org/10.4060/cb1928en>*

There is increasing attention to the importance of biodiversity for food
security and nutrition, especially above-ground biodiversity such as plants
and animals. However, less attention is being paid to the biodiversity
beneath our feet, soil biodiversity, which drives many processes that
produce food or purify soil and water. This report is the result of an
inclusive process involving more than 300 scientists from around the world
under the auspices of the FAO’s Global Soil Partnership and its
Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, the Convention on Biological
Diversity, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, and the European
Commission. It presents concisely the state of knowledge on soil
biodiversity, the threats to it, and the solutions that soil biodiversity
can provide to problems in different fields. It also represents a valuable
contribution to raising awareness of the importance of soil biodiversity
and highlighting its role in finding solutions to today's global threats.

Read more: *
<http://www.fao.org/3/cb1928en/CB1928EN.pdf?fbclid=IwAR03GC7gCaeoJEUejI7pEYe8S0yYhpyWBKofo3fhhwLvFw6HbmOjKF9LYVo>http://www.fao.org/3/cb1928en/CB1928EN.pdf?fbclid=IwAR03GC7gCaeoJEUejI7pEYe8S0yYhpyWBKofo3fhhwLvFw6HbmOjKF9LYVo
<http://www.fao.org/3/cb1928en/CB1928EN.pdf?fbclid=IwAR03GC7gCaeoJEUejI7pEYe8S0yYhpyWBKofo3fhhwLvFw6HbmOjKF9LYVo>*
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Safeguarding our food supply against Covid-19 and climate change

Edited by acatech. Published in the acatech IMPULSE series on 15 October
2020 by acatech.

The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of our
food supply. In view of the threats posed by climate change, we must ensure
that it is even better equipped to cope with future crises, according to a
group of experts at acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering.
The experts recommend the adoption of a sustainable agricultural
intensification model that combines principles of organic and conventional
farming, supported by new technologies. The decisions required to promote
this model should be taken as part of the forthcoming reform of the
European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Download the whole document: *
<https://en.acatech.de/publication/a-resilient-and-sustainable-food-supply/>https://en.acatech.de/publication/a-resilient-and-sustainable-food-supply/
<https://en.acatech.de/publication/a-resilient-and-sustainable-food-supply/>*
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SSSA Publishes New Book | Guidelines for Analysis and Description of Soil
and Regolith Thin Sections, Second Edition

By Georges Stoops
<https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorStored=Stoops%2C+Georges>.
First published 20 November 2020 in the Book Series *ASA, CSSA, and SSSA
Books <https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/series/5172>*, © 2021 Soil
Science Society of America, Inc. Print ISBN:9780891189756 |Online,
ISBN:9780891189763 |DOI:10.1002/9780891189763

The new book from SSSA is a revised guide to the study and of soil and
regolith thin sections. A specialized system of terms and concepts must be
used to accurately and effectively distinguish and name the microscopic
features of soils and regoliths. With a comprehensive, consistent
terminology at their disposal, researchers may compare, store and discuss
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Techniques for Work with Plant and Soil Nematodes

Edited by: Roland N Perry, University of Hertfordshire, UK, David Hunt,
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Soil Metagenomics

By By T.C.K. Sugitha, Asish K. Binodh, K. Ramasamy, U. Sivakumar. 1st
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