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Sudanese Soil Information System and Digital Soil Mapping - TCP/SUD/3601

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 8

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Although knowledge on soils in Sudan was plentiful, it needed to be harmonized and made accessible to a broadrange of users and stakeholders. The country had nonational soil information system that could describethe status and potential of agricultural soils, as well as individual soil properties that are essential for mapping agricultural areas for investment potential and environmental management in general. This lack of readily available information affected both research and development activities, and policy and strategy-making atnational, subnational and local levels. Top medium-termpriorities such as crop intensification and high productivity can only be achieved through the sustainable management of land resources, which depends on theavailability of soil information. Dealing with increasing levels of land degradation, exacerbated by the expectation of climate change, also required a knowledge of soil resources in order to formulate mitigation plans to ensure better food security in the future. In responseto this, the project focused on the recovery and collection of soil legacy data, the development of a national soi ldatabase for the storage and harmonization of these data, and capacity development on digital soil mapping.

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