Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly – Sixth Session 11 – 13 June 2018 FAO HQ

1. Presenter name
Title presentation
South American Soil
Partnership
Ing.Agr. Carla Pascale Medina

2. Achievements since 5th Plenary Assembly 2017
Pillar 1 New proposal
Presentation to
FONTAGRO fund
"Development and
validation of health soil
indicators: Regional
platform for monitoring ".
Information will be available to generate
early warnings of degradation processes for
policy purposes.
 This initiative includes: Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay
and the GSP. The project will be coordinated by
Argentina.
 The objective of this project is to create a multi-agency
platform for indicators and methodologies for tracing
and monitoring the health and quality of agricultural
soils.
Contributes to strengthen
the capacities of countries
to know the state of soils.

3. Pillar 2 Soils Doctor Program
We began exploring countries interest in the program
and identifying those willing to start joining the
initiative.
Pillar 3 Research
We continued exploring ongoing research initiatives on
soils, to identify gaps of information.

4. Pillar 4 Information and data
 New SISLAC
 FAO Rome will host SISLAC
 New design in line with national soil information systems. The updated
Argentinian SIS-INTA model will be taken as a starting point.
 Support and give visibility of soil data from donor countries, in line with GLOSIS
and intellectual property policy approved by GSP Assembly.
 Another actions
 Training on digital soil mapping.
 Joined publication of the digital soil mapping methodology, under review for
publication in a peer-reviewed journal https://www.soil-discuss.net/soil-2017-
40/
 Strengthening and reactivation of SISLAC: TCP / RLA / 3613: DEVELOPMENT OF
SOIL INFORMATION CAPABILITIES FOR THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF
NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE COUNTRIES OF SOUTH AMERICA.

5. HarmonizationPillar 5
 Strengthen the performance of laboratories
 Harmonization of soil laboratory procedures
Main objectives
 establishment of national networks of soil laboratories
 harmonization of interlaboratory data
 comparative rounds between reference laboratories in each
country
 implementation of harmonized methods
 circulation of reference samples in different countries
 Regional Manual on harmonized soil laboratory analysis – end 2018
Launch of the Latin American Soil Laboratory Network (LATSOLAN)
Presidency: Costa Rica - Vice presidency: Argentina.

6. • Translation of membership adhesion form into Spanish.
• GLINKA Award: Argentina

7. A New Project - FONTAGRO:
"Development and validation of health and quality indicators of agricultural
soil: Regional platform for tracing and monitoring methodology".
Proposal for a Regional GEF Project focused on:
sustainable soil management through soil degradation monitoring
implementation of Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management
Creation of a Latin American Observatory of soil health and quality to
provide elements for decision-making and formulation of public policies
 Next initiatives, actions and events

8.  Next initiatives, actions and events
SISLAC Workshop at Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC) – Republic
of Colombia (july 9, 2018)
Fifth Ordinary Meeting of the SSP (july 10, 2018, Bogota - Colombia).
Colombia as new SSP President.
21st World Congress of Soil Science (21-WCSS) – 12-17 August 2018
Presentation and Publication of the digital soil methodology. "Towards a
regional soil information system for South America: construction of the
soil organic carbon map of South America ".

9. Thanks for your attention
Our team!!