As part of the GSP’s capacity development and improvement programme, FAO/GSP have organised a one week training in Izmir, Turkey. The main goal of the training was to increase the capacity of Turkey on digital soil mapping, new approaches on data collection, data processing and modelling of soil organic carbon. This 5 day training is titled ‘’Training on Digital Soil Organic Carbon Mapping’’ was held in IARTC - International Agricultural Research and Education Center in Menemen, Izmir on 20-25 August, 2017.

1. GSP - Eurasian Soil
Partnership - Dijital
Toprak Haritalama ve
Modelleme Egitimi
Izmir, Turkiye
21-25 Agustos 2017
Yusuf YIGINI, PhD - FAO, Land and Water Division (CBL)

2. Global Soil Partnership?
• Global Soil Partnership was established in
December 2012 as a mechanism to develop a
strong interactive partnership and enhanced
collaboration and synergy of efforts between all
stakeholders.
• From land users through to policy makers, one of
the key objectives of the GSP is to improve the
governance and promote sustainable
management of soils.

3. 2011?
- Soil Investment far too low.
- Soil degradation, a continuous serious threat.
- Outdated soil information at global and regional
levels.
- Weakening of national soil institutions.
- Poor knowledge and appreciation of soil functions
for life.
- Gap on targeted soil research.

7. Background - GSP
The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) cooperates very closely
with various global mechanisms which address soil issues
and which require improved information collection and
sharing about the status of soils.
This cooperation is important because FAO member
countries are involved in various global activities through
monitoring and reporting on natural resources, including soils.
FAO is working to align these activities to improve
knowledge and information exchange about soils.

8. Background - GSP
Since its creation, the GSP has become an
important partnership where global soil issues are
discussed and addressed by multiple stakeholders.
Key outputs demonstrate that the partnership was
needed to fill an existing gap in the promotion of
sustainable soil management.
Among those outputs are the:

9. Establishment of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel
on Soils
Submission of the proposal for the International Year of
Soils 2015
Production of the Status of the World’s Soil Resources
report
Establishment of Regional Soil Partnerships
Development of capacities in developing countries on
digital soil mapping
Establishment of national soil information systems
what have been done?

10. Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils
The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils
(ITPS) was established at the first Plenary Assembly
of the Global Soil Partnership held at FAO
Headquarters on 11 and 12 of June, 2013.
The ITPS is composed of 27 soil experts
representing all the regions of the world. The main
function of the ITPS is to provide scientific and
technical advice and guidance on global soil issues
to the Global Soil Partnership

11. Status of the World’s Soil Resources report
The SWSR is a reference document on the
status of global soil resources that
provides regional assessments of soils.
The information is based on peer-
reviewed scientific literature,
complemented with expert knowledge
and project outputs.

12. Status of the World’s Soil Resources report

13. International Year of
Soils 2015
Submission of the proposal for the International
Year of Soils 2015
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations was nominated to implement the
IYS 2015, within the framework of the Global Soil
Partnership and in collaboration with Governments
and the secretariat of the United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification.
http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/wsd2016/background/en/

14. GSOC’17
Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon
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, held from 21 to 23 March 2017 at
FAO HQ, Rome.
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/
soil-organic-carbon-symposium/en/

15. GSP – Regional Partnerships
North
America
South
America
Central America
Europe
Africa
NENA Asia
Pacific
Regional Soil Partnerships were
established in order to facilitate regional
actions and to ensure that the
partnership process becomes country
driven.

16. GSP – Regional Partnerships
North
America
South
America
Central America
Europe
Africa
NENA Asia
Pacific
Regional Soil Partnerships build on
existing regional networks or collaborative
processes and provide guidance on regional
goals, their required implementation
mechanisms and should regularly review
progress in reaching common objectives
and targets.

17. GSP – Regional Partnerships
North America
South America
Central America
Europe
Africa
NENA Asia
Pacific

18. GSP – Regional Partnerships
The aim of the European Soil Partnership is to bring
together the various scattered networks and soil related
activities into a common framework, open to all
institutions and stakeholders willing to actively
contribute to sustainable soil management in Europe.
Secretariat is hosted by the European Commission DG
JRC in Ispra, Italy. The sub-regional Eurasian Soil
Partnership is established within the European Soil
Partnership and its Secretariat is based in Moscow,
Russian Federation.

19. 1- Soil management
2- Awareness raising
3- Research
4- Information and data
5- Harmonisation
GSP Pillars
The mandate of the GSP is to
improve governance of the limited
soil resources of the planet in order
to guarantee agriculturally
productive soils for a food secure
world,
In order to achieve its mandate, the
GSP addresses five pillars of action
to be

20. 1- Promote sustainable management of soil resources for soil
protection, conservation and sustainable productivity
2- Encourage investment, technical cooperation, policy,
education awareness and extension in soil
3- Promote targeted soil research and development focusing on
identified gaps and priorities and synergies with related
productive, environmental and social development actions
4- Enhance the quantity and quality of soil data and
information: data collection (generation), analysis,
validation, reporting, monitoring and integration with other
disciplines
5- Harmonization of methods, measurements and indicators for
the sustainable management and protection of soil resources

21. ESP - Pillars

22. 4- Enhance the quantity
and quality of soil data
and information: data
collection (generation),
analysis, validation,
reporting, monitoring and
integration with other
disciplines

23. GSOCmap
➢ First test round of the Global Soil Information System following a
bottom-up approach.

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