The document outlines the work performed by the ITPS since the 10th working session, covering various pillars related to soil biodiversity, soil pollution assessment, and sustainable land management practices. It includes reports on significant events like the global symposiums, workshops, and meetings, as well as educational initiatives and recognitions such as the Glinka World Soil Prize. Additionally, activities of ITPS members are documented, highlighting their contributions to soil science and management across multiple regions and conferences.

1. 4. Report of the work
performed since the 10th
working session
Rosa M Poch – ITPS Chair

2. Welcome and thanks

3. Pillar 1
• State of Biodiversity publication: draft Global
Assessment of Soil Biodiversity
• Establishment of the International Network of Salt-
Affected Soils: review of concept note
• Review the Global assessment of soil pollution report

4. Pillar 2
• Soil Doctor programme: revision of educational
material
• Glinka World Soil Prize 2019: Prof. Xu Minggang
• King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award 2019:
Asociación Costarricense de la Ciencia del Suelo

5. Pillar 3
• “Feasible and regionally contextualized guidelines for
measuring, mapping, monitoring and reporting on SOC
stocks and SOC changes”
• Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity: concept note, call
• Global Symposium on Soil Salinity: concept note
• Outcomes GSER
• Review of outcome documents
• Publication of Special Issues - ongoing
• Land Degradation and Development
• Land Use Policy
• SOIL
• International Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

6. Pillar 4
• CGSOCmap: GSOCmap Technical Report (V1.5)
review
• GSSmap: Technical specifications of the soil salinity
map review
• GSOSseq map: Review of the technical
specifications for country-driven SOC sequestration
potential map
• GSERmap: GSERmap Working Document review
• Black soils: definition

7. Pillar 5
• GLOSOLAN (?)

8. Activities of ITPS members (1/4)
Planning Meeting Southwest Pacific Regional Partnership, Brisbane, October 2019
Megan Balks,
Siosiua
Halavatau
Pacific Week of Agriculture in Samoa: presentations to 50 students at USP, NUS, Leififi
College, and Avele College; stands promoting the PSP and the Pacific Soils Portal (a
database/soil map GIS), under development as part of the PSP initiative, October 2019
Global Forum on Innovations for Marginalized Environments (GFIME) hosted by the
International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) in Dubai, 20 Nov; including the launch
of the International Network for Salt-Affected Soils (INSAS)
Kutaiba M.
Hassan
Presidential lecture, National Seminar on Developments in Soil Science, and special
symposium "Digital Soil Science for empowering small and marginal farmers“; 15-18th
November 2019 at Varanasi, India
Ashok Patra
Meeting 6th of the GSP Pillar 4 Working Group , August 2019 Costanza
CalzolariMeeting 5th of International Network of Soil Information Institutions (INSII), October 2019
Plenary Meeting of the Eurasian Soil Partnership (Moldova 30 September-1 October 2019) Maria
KonyushkovaSecond meeting of the International Network of Black Soils (Moldova, 4-5 October, 2019)

9. Activities of ITPS members (2/4)
Expert witness at special heairing on the status of soils in the Senate of Canada. May 2019
David Lobb
Review of the UNCCD-SPI Objective 1.1. technical report “Soil Carbon benefits of
Sustainable Land Management Practices”, April 2019
Provided Observer Organizations’ (ITPS) views on the overall structure of the IPCC Sixth
Assessment Report (AR6) Synthesis Report (SYR) as part of the scoping exercise. July 2019.
Keynote address at IUSS Pedometrics 2019 Conference on ITPS activities and need for
pedometrics research. Guelph, Canada, June 2019.
Presentations and consultation with staff of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
and U Guelph, on soil and land databases, modeling and mapping- Guelph, August 2019
Organization and presentation at the 3rd National Health Summit, hosted by the Soil
Conservation Council of Canada; Winippeg, Manitoba, October 2019
Meetings with consortium of soil scientists on soil databases in Canada, November 2019
Announced World Soil Day at a Soil Conservation Council of Canada Awards Ceremony in
Winnipeg, Manitoba; November 2019
Organizer of the symposium: Global Initiative for sustainable soil management, within the
Congresso Brasileiro de Ciência do Solo (CBCS), 21 - 26 July 2019; Cuiabá, Brazil
Lúcia Anjos

10. Activities of ITPS members (3/4)
Participation to Land and Water Days Cairo (Egypt) 31 march - 4 April (FAO)
Rafla Attia
Participation to workshop on LDN and NDCS, 9-12 july in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) organized
by African Development Bank
Organisation of Side Event: Decision Support for Mainstreaming and Scaling out of
Sustainable Land Management to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN); and
participation to Panel of side event organized by FAO during the COP 14 UNCCD,
September 2019, New Delhi, India.
Organization of final international closing workshop Decision support for the integration
and extension of sustainable land management, Tunisia, 21-23 october2019
Participation to Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS) workshop on application of
remote sensing to support decision makers, Tunisia, October 2019.
Participation to IKI Project regional training in Barcelona: The Paris Agreement in action:
upscaling forest and landscape restoration to achieve nationally determined contributions;
on green and climate finance, 4-7 November 2019 in Barcelona
Participation in the regional workshop “Use of tools of the World Soil Alliance for informed
decision making, sustainable land, and land management in Latin America and the
Caribbean." May 20 - 21st, 2019, Quito – Ecuador. Marta María
Bolaños
BenavidesOrganization of XIX Colombian Congress of Soil Science, Cartagena de Indias, October 23th
to 25th. Presentation: Enzymes as Sensitive Indicators of Fertility and Soil Health and
Organization of the World Soil Day Celebration in Colombia.

11. Activities of ITPS members (4/4)
COP14, United Nations, Convention to Combat Desertification UNCCD, New Delhi, India,
2-13 September 2019 Samuel
FranckeForum Healthy soil for sustainable agriculture, (World Soil Day), Peruvian Ministry of
Agriculture, 5 December 2019, Lima, Peru
Steering Committee of the European Soil Partnership, Rome 18-19 November 2019
European ITPS
members
Second General Assembly of the Chinese Soil and Water Conservation Society – Several
keynote presentations, discussions and visits; celebration of the World Soil Day. Institute
of Soil and Water Conservation, Yangling (China), 4-10 December 2019
Rosa M Poch
and GSP
secretariat
Keynote speech: Soil Sustainable Management (SSM) - relevance of researches and
actions from decision makers and governments, Congresso Brasileiro de Ciência do Solo
(CBCS), 21 - 26 July 2019; Cuiabá, Brazil
Rosa M. Poch
Panel discussion: The way forward; within Conference: Soil and the SDGs: challenges and
need for action, Brussels, November 2019
Presentation of the Soil Map of Catalonia 1:250,000. ICGC, Barcelona, September 2019