ISRIC - World Soil Information

✨ Season’s Greetings from all of us at ISRIC – World Soil Information! As the year draws to a close, we are grateful for your collaboration and support. Wishing you joyful holidays and a happy New Year. ✨

A paper titled “A European soil organic carbon monitoring system leveraging Sentinel 2 imagery and the LUCAS soil database” was recently published in @Geoderma_Jrnl. The paper is the direct scientific outcome of the @esa-funded WorldSoils project.  isric.org/news/new-paper…

We are pleased to share our 2022–2023 Annual Report. This report showcases the organisation’s key achievements, which have laid the groundwork for our current initiatives and continue to propel our mission forward. Read more: bitl.to/3R8L

Stakeholders gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, for the Annual Project Meeting to evaluate progress made in 2024 and plan for the project’s final year, 2025. Read more: tinyurl.com/487vs52y @RwandaAgriBoard @WUR_WCDI @ISRICorg @WUR @ILRI @ASARECA @CIFOR_ICRAF @IUCN @InstituteEiar

High-Level Launch of the WOCAT Multi-Donor Basket Fund (MDBF) for SLM 🗓 Dec 12, 2024 |⏰ 13:15-14:15 |📍MET-04, UNCCD COP16, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Join us as we launch this milestone to support global Sustainable Land Management & land degradation neutrality. #COP16Riyadh

Last week at #COP16Riyadh @WOCATnet @UNCCD booth, we celebrated #WorldSoilDay and showcased resources like SoilGrids, Ethiopia National Soil Information System, and Soil Information Community of Practice, facilitating interactive discussions with visitors from various countries.

🌱 Celebrating #WorldSoilDay with art, science and soil! 🎨 Today, as we honour soil's vital importance, we share the recording of yesterday's 2nd @WorldSoilMuseum World of Soils lecture "Palette of the Earth: The Use of Earth Pigments in Visual Arts." youtube.com/watch?v=hb0TC9…

🌍Happy #WorldSoilDay! This year's theme, Caring for Soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage, aligns perfectly w/ our mission. We develop free resources, contribute to standards development & provide guidance/tools to implement FAIR data on soils worldwide🌱 More: tinyurl.com/86hmtn22

Together with ISRIC and CSIR-SRI, held a workshop in Ghana to strengthen GhaSIS. Funded by the Gates Foundation, it focused on creating a roadmap for better soil data and sustainable farming.🌱🌍 Learn more 👇 ow.ly/7By050UkXtp #SoilHealth | #WorldSoilDay

🌍𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 #𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝗦𝗼𝗶𝗹𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗧 𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗖𝗗 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 (#COP16Riyadh🔵A14) 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 @ISRICorg: 👉 8:30-10: WOCAT Morning Meetup: ISRIC Maps (SoilGrids) 👉 13-15: ISRIC Session - from SoilGrids to @Soils4A

#Soil data and information are essential for effective #SoilManagement🌱📏 Join us for #WorldSoilDay on 5 December by exploring the #HoliSoils toolkit to get access to all the #soil data, models, maps, and methods developed within the project 👉 holisoils.eu/toolkit/

We are @UNCCD #COP16Riyadh 2-13.11 “𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦.”🌱The WOCAT Network Team has arrived and awaits you, together with partners and members at the daily Morning Meet-Ups!💡Share & learn #SLM #LDN in a collaborative climate📝Sign-up!👉tinyurl.com/bddyah6w

On 5 and 6 December 2024, we will be at the 𝗪𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗧-𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗖𝗗 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 A14, Blue Zone, at #COP16Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. More info below ⬇️

#InnoVarINVITE 🌱What challenges does #varietytesting face today? Experts from @UnivDebrecen, @ISRICorg, @ADASGroup, @WUR & @CREARicerca discussed the changing environment, recommendation systems, multi-covariate regression for yield prediction & harmonizing VCU testing in 🇪🇺.

On 24 October, CABI and ISRIC showcased their Sustainable Soil Information System (SIS) Framework in an online demo. The framework aims to support the global soil data community in developing or enhancing a SIS. 📺 Missed it? Watch recording here: youtu.be/CxzpFcoZ_gY?fe…

Interesting soil education project where also the Soil Geography and Landscape group and @ISRICorg are collaborating!

Thrilled to see that "Providing quality-assessed and standardised soil data to support global mapping and modelling" now features amongst the most downloaded ESSD articles during the last 12 months. essd.copernicus.org/most_downloade… doi.org/10.5194/essd-1… @ISRICorg @holisoils @ISC_WDS

Are you a teacher or head teacher interested in promoting soil literacy? Join the CURIOSOIL project #WhyITeachSoil campaign! Fill out the form here ⤵️ lnkd.in/d96wbCqh

📢 Exciting news! At the 20th #CAADP_PP & 15th #ADFNS in Harare, @FARAinfo, ISRIC and @CABI_News, supported by @FAO, have signed an implementation agreement to establish a continent-wide partnership to enhance soil information systems in Africa. Read more:isric.org/news/new-conti…

Join us for the next World of Soils lecture! 🎨 Palette of the Earth: The Use of Earth Pigments in Visual Arts 📆 Date: 4 December ⏰ Time: 12:25-13:00 📍 Location: @ISRICorg World Soil Museum 🔗 Register here: bityl.co/SfnX