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\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n IUSS News<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n IUSS Season’s Greetings 2021<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Best wishes for a wonderful Holiday Season and a very Happy New Year 2022!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Click here:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>https:\/\/youtu.be\/IQ6WAjsZI4w<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n IUSS Bulletin 139 published<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n IUSS Bulletin 139 (85 pages) was uploaded to the IUSS website. IUSS Bulletin 139 contains the minutes of the IUSS Council Meetings during the IUSS Inter-Congress Meeting 2020 (online), an update on the preparations for the 22nd World Congress of Soil Science (WCSS22), an abundance of news from national and regional Soil Science Societies, followed by an account of World Soil Day 2021 and the latest activities from \u2018Stop Soil Degradation and the IUSS educative project to achieve it\u2019. This is followed by conference and meeting reports, articles from the IUSS alerts, new publications and obituaries of outstanding soil scientists.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Read more:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Download Bulletin 139<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n WASWAC-IUSS Position Paper on the Interlinkages of Soil and Climate Change presented at COP26<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n At the start of the COP 26 on October 31, 2021 the WASWAC-IUSS Position Paper with the logos of 50 Soil Science Societies and Institutions and the list of 805 individual supporters were sent to the President and the Executive Secretary of COP 26. The IUSS thanks all institutional and individual supporters for their engagement.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Download the position paper:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/index.php?rex_media_type=download&rex_media_file=waswac-iuss_position_paper_cop_26_20211031.pdf<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The list of supporters can be downloaded from the IUSS website:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/newsroom\/iuss-waswac\/<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n IUSS expert panel at Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2022<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The IUSS organizes the first expert panel of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA). The panel is titled “Global perspectives on sustainable soil management towards food security” and will be held on Monday, 24 January 2022, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. (CET), with a subsequent deep dive from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Panel guests will be:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Facilitator: Dr. Edoardo A.C. Costantini, Senior Researcher, CNR- Institute of Bioeconomy, Florence, Italy and President Elect of the International Union of Soil Sciences<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) is an international conference in a virtual format on central issues of vital importance for global agricultural and food policies. The GFFA is hosted by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture of Germany. The five-day forum features a large number of events that provide an international audience of experts from the worlds of politics, industry, science, and civil society with an opportunity to address and reach consensus on issues and challenges relating to global agricultural policy and food security. In the past, high-level keynote speakers such as Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, Josefa Sacko, Angela Merkel, Ban Ki-moon, and Prince Charles joined the GFFA line-up. The 2022 GFFA will address the issue \u201cSustainable Land Use: Food Security Starts with the Soil\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Read more:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>https:\/\/www.gffa-berlin.de\/en\/fachpodien_2022\/iuss\/<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 2022 Guy Smith Medal Award \u2013 Invitation to propose nominees<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The IUSS Guy Smith Medal Award Committee is pleased to invite you to propose nominees for the forthcoming\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Guy Smith Medal<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0award. The next award will be handed over during the Glasgow 22<\/span><\/span><\/span>nd<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span>\u00a0World Congress of Soil Science (<\/span><\/span><\/span>https:\/\/22wcss.org\/<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>), to be organized from the 31<\/span><\/span><\/span>st<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span>\u00a0of July to the 5<\/span><\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span>\u00a0of August, 2022 by the British Society of Soil Science.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Criteria for selection:<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The nominee should have the following qualifications:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The proposal for nomination should comprise a short text, including the main steps of the scientific career of the nominee, her\/his most relevant scientific publications and major contribution to the development of soil classification.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n For more information, please refer to the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>web-link of the IUSS Commission 1.4<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Soil Classification):\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n We look forward to receiving your\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>proposals by February 26<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.iuss.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IUSS-Soilutions-Calender-12_21-212x300.jpg\")
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