The II meeting of the Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN), 28 - 30 November 2018, FAO HQ, Rome, Italy Rosa Cuevas Corona, GSP FAO

1. Ms. Rosa Cuevas, GSP Chair for Pillar 5
Ms. Lucrezia Caon, GLOSOLAN coordinator
Item 2: The added value of GLOSOLAN

2. We need to have a clear idea of
what we want to achieve and WHY
This exercise will help:
- The establishment of GLOSOLAN/RESOLANs/national soil
laboratory networks
- Individual laboratories to justify their commitment and
investment in implementing GLOSOLAN’s activities
- Mobilizing financial resources

3. GLOSOLAN’s objectives
why are we here?
• To strengthen the performance of laboratories towards the
development of standards
• To harmonize soil analyses in order to make soil information
across laboratories, countries and regions comparable and
interpretable
Are these objectives comprehensive and sufficient?

4. Impacts of GLOSOLAN
Going beyond laboratory’s practices…
What can GLOSOLAN activities contribute to?

5. Pillar 1: Promote sustainable
management of soil resources for
soil protection, conservation and
sustainable productivity
Pillar 2: Encourage investment,
technical cooperation, policy,
education, awareness and extension
in soil
Pillar 3: Promote targeted soil
research and development focusing
on identified gaps, priorities and
synergies with related productive,
environmental and social
development actions
Pillar 4: Information and Data
Pillar 5: Harmonization of methods,
measurements and indicator for the
sustainable management and
protection of soil resources

6. Identify research gapse.g. which promising methods
require refinement and furtherdevelopment?
Area for investment,
technical cooperation,
extension services
Provision of reliabledata
to support the
establishment of the
Global Soil Information
System(GLOSIS)
Improve the basisfor decision making regarding
e.g.soil fertility, SOCmanagement

7. Impacts of GLOSOLAN
GLOSOLAN can contribute to:
• Improve the basis for decision making on the field (e.g. soil fertility, SOC
management) and at the political level
• Raise awareness on the need to invest on the protection and sustainable
management of soil resources (link to investment, technical and scientific
cooperation, extension services and education)
• Identify research gaps e.g. which promising methods require refinement and
further development?
• Provide reliable data to support the establishment of the Global Soil
Information System (GLOSIS) and populate SoilSTAT
• What else?

8. Indicators
How can we assess the performance of
GLOSOLAN?
• E.g. Number of registered laboratories, number of SOPs
developed under GLOSOLAN, number of SOPs
implemented…

9. Thanks for your attention