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MeetingEurasian Soil Partnership (EASP) Workshop. Background Note and Provisional Agenda
16-18 June 2015, Izmir, Turkey
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MeetingSecond Plenary Meeting of the Eurasian Soil Partnership (EASP) - Workshop Report
15- 18 June 2015, Izmir, Turkey
2015Also available in:
No results found.The workshop was organised around plenary presentations (in particular on the status of GSP and outcomes of the previous EASP meetings held in Samarkand, September 2014 and Antalya, October 2014) and plenary discussions for re-establishment of EASP Steering Committee and development and validation of the RIP. The 6 working groups discussed the proposed RIP components, outputs, activities, indicators, timeline, partners and budget/funding. The topics discussed included: Pillar 1 Sustainable soi l management, protection and restoration (framework) Pillar 2 Investment, technical cooperation, policy, education, awareness and extension in soil Pillar 3 Targeted soil research and development Pillars 4 and 5 Enhancing soil data and information and harmonization of methods, measurements and indicators IYS 2015 in the EASP member countries Financing RIP Donor mapping The workshop was also forward looking and provided recommendations for possible considerations and actions needed to promote and support implementation of the RIP. Furthermore, the workshop offered advice to GSP Focal Points and Secretariat with regard to the road map, next steps in the RIP development process and the additional actions that may be required to ensure that the document can be approved by GSP and successfully implemented. The importance for securing support for the RIP and to collaborate with variety of partners and projects, in particular FAO CACILM-II project for ‘Integrated natural resourc es management for salt affected and drought prone areas in Central Asia and Turkey’ was noted. -
MeetingPlenary Meeting of the Eurasian Soil Partnership (EASP). Workshop Report
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 10- 11 September 2014
2014Also available in:
No results found.The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) is a major international initiative with a vision ‘to improve global governance of the limited soil resources of the planet in order to guarantee healthy and productive soils for a food secure world, as well as sustain other essential ecosystem services’. The Regional Soil Partnerships are to assist the GSP to move into concrete field action at regional, national and local levels through ‘Implementation Plans’. The Eurasian chapter of the Global Soil Partnership was successfully launched on November 20 2013 in Moscow, Russia with a final ‘communiqué’ appointing the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS) as the Secretariat. The launch workshop was a first step to support the development of a dynamic community of practice of soil specialists and practitioners and paved the way towards an implementation plan for sustainable soil management and the reversal of alarming soil degradation trends in Eurasia with a preliminary identification of key soil issue s.
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