Eight Working Session of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS), 30 April - 4 May 2018

2. Item 4. Report of the work performed since the 7th working
session (ITPS)
Introduction by the ITPS Chair

3. THE 27 SCIENTSTS MEMBERS OF THE ITPS 2015-2018
Proposed by GSP Partners and nominated by FAO Members
NORTH AMERICA
• Mr. Dan Pennock (Canada)2
• Mr. Gary M. Pierzynsky (United States
of America)2
EUROPE
Chair: Mr. Luca Montanarella (EC)2
• Mr. Gunay Erpul (Turkey)2
• Mr. Rainer Horn (Germany)
• Mr. Peter de Ruiter (The
Netherlands)
• Mr. Pavel Krasilnikov (Russian
Federation)
AFRICA
• Mr. Nsalambi V. Nkongolo
(Democratic Republic of Congo)3
• Mr. Bhanooduth Lalljee (Mauritius)
• Mr. Martin Yemefack (Cameroon)
• Ms. Isaurinda dos Santos Baptista
Costa (Cape Verde)
• Ms. Botle Mapeshoane (Lesotho)
ASIA
• Mr. Patiram Brajendra (India)
• Mr. Sopon Chomchan (Thailand)
• Mr. Kazuyuki Yagi (Japan)
• Mr. Bahriuloom Amanullah (Pakistan)1
• Mr. Gan-Lin Zhang (China)
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
• Mr. Juan Antonio Comerma
(Venezuela)
• Mr. Miguel Taboada (Argentina)1
• Ms. Maria de Lourdes Mendonca
Santos Breffin (Brazil)
• Mr. Fernando Garcia Préchach
(Uruguay)
• Ms. Oneyda Hernandez Lara (Cuba)
NEAR EAST
• Mr. Talal Darwish (Lebanon)
• Mr. Ahmad S. Muhaimeed (Iraq)
• Mr. Saéb AbdelHaleem Khresat (Jordan)
SOUTH WEST PACIFIC
• Mr. Neil McKenzie (Australia)
• Mr. Siosiua Halavatau (Tonga)
1also members of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land Degradation
2also members of the IPBES Land Degradation and Restoration Assessment
3also member of the IPCC Elaboration of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC
Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

4. It was agreed that the following activities will
be implemented in the period 2017-2018:
The five ITPS working groups identified per each pillar will keep on working
on the implementation plans;
Four working groups will prepare reports on the progresses made in
addressing the four priorities identified in the SWSR report;
Preparation of a Code of conduct for the management of fertilizers;
Regional revisions of the Global Soil Organic Carbon Map (GSOCmap);
Engagement of ITPS in INSII and GLOSOLAN;
Work on preparing the second edition of the SWSR;
Preparation of the study on the economic benefits of SSM;
Organization of an international symposium on soil pollution (GSOP2018).

5. ITPS Chairs of Pillars and WG
Chairs of Pillars:
1. Dan Pennock
2. Maria de Lourdes Mendonça Santos Brefin
3. Brajendra
4. Neil McKenzie
Chairs of Working Groups:
1. Gunay Erpul
2. Miguel Taboada
3. Gary M. Pierzynsky
4. Neil Mckenzie

6. WG MembersWorking Group 1
Nsalambi V. Nkongolo (DRC); Isaurinda dos Santos Baptista Costa (Cape Verde); Amanullah (Pakistan); Talal
Darwish (Lebanon); Ahmad S. Muhaimeed (Iraq); Saéb AbdelHaleem Khresat (Jordan); Juan Comerma
(Venezuela); Fernando Garcia (Uruguay); Dan Pennock (Canada); Ganlin Zhan (China); Gunay Erpul (Turkey,
Chair); Pavel Krasilnikov (Russia); Neil Mckenzie (Australia); Rainer Horn (Germany)
Working Group 2
Nsalambi V. Nkongolo (DRC); Martin Yemefack (Cameroon); Miguel Taboada (Argentina, Chair);
Bhanooduth Lalljee (Mauritius); Brajendra Parmar (India); Maria Lourdes Mendonca (Brazil); Gary M.
Pierzynsky (USA); Oneyda Lara (Cuba); Ganlin Zhan (China); Peter de Ruiter (The Netherlands); Siosiua
Halavatau (Tonga); Kazuyuki Yagi (Japan);
Working Group 3
Martin Yemefack (Cameroon); Isaurinda dos Santos Baptista Costa (Cape Verde); Brajendra Parmar (India);
Amanullah (Pakistan); Juan Comerma (Venezuela); Gary M. Pierzynsky (USA, Chair); Ganlin Zhan (China);
Siosiua Halavatau (Tonga);
Working Group 4
Talal Darwish (Lebanon); Ahmad S. Muhaimeed (Iraq); Miguel Taboada (Argentina); Maria Lourdes
Mendonca (Brazil); Fernando Garcia (Uruguay); Dan Pennock (Canada); Ganlin Zhan (China); Gunay Erpul
(Turkey); Pavel Krasilnikov (Russia); Neil Mckenzie (Australia, Chair);

7. Main achievements 2015-18