SOTER Soils and Terrain Digital Database (UNEP FAO International Soil Reference and Information Center International Society of Soil Sciences)

SOTER Soils and Terrain Digital Database (FAO International Soil Reference and Information Center International Society of Soil Sciences UNEP)

Good earth. Rich earth.

Dirt. Earth. Soil.

Agricultural soils

Agricultural soils

The soil is extremely good.

Gordon Gekko Reborn

Civil Soil

(a) Delineation of natural resources relating to pedology and soil conservation (at the local level, with regional help)

8. Southern African Regional Commission for the Conservation and Utilization of Soil (SARCCUS).

The earth says it's high time...

Clean soil is a critical problem the nitrification, the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico.

Selamatkan Tanah kita

The soil here is fertile.

We've talked about the soil erosion.

This is very good soil.

Background information on structure and or content In table 5 (II), Parties may choose to report N2O emissions from the drainage of soils from two land use categories, Forest Land and Wetlands, for both organic and mineral soils, if they wish to do so.

(c) Environment land degradation, soil erosion, forestry, biodiversity, coastal deterioration, natural disasters and heritage.

I've been building topsoil.

This is how soil is created.

Intensive farming is depleting soils.

Steaming piles of humus.

N2O from agricultural soils

Parts of this country are not unlike your dustbowl formation.

UNEP will continue the Soil and Terrain Digital Database (SOTER) activities in 1997 with the International Soils Reference and Information Centre and FAO.

So, it stays under the soil.

Soil erosion (by wind and water).

The only available global assessment of soil degradation is the UNEP and ISRIC Global Assessment of Soil Degradation (GLASOD) study carried out during the 1980s at a scale of 1 5 million.

Because just that soil could make the acoustic difference.

Promotion of agroforestry and soil conservation

(a) Resources water, soil, iron ore deposits, construction materials

I'm preparing a report on soil erosion at the moment.

Radar observation can also be used for soil studies (particularly for soil humidity measurements), an area in which INTA has long and valuable experience.

And thousands of tons of it are being washed away every year.

The major land degradation problems in Egypt are related to hydrological constraints which cause waterlogging, salinity and alkalinity, physical constraints such as deterioration of the soil structure and compaction, and biological constraints caused by a decline in soil organic matter leading to declining soil fertility.

Intensive forestry is depleting the soil and exposing it to erosion.

Now, because the fate of water and carbon are tied to soil organic matter, when we damage soils, you give off carbon.

Since then, more specific and objective studies have been undertaken, notably the Mapping of Soil and Terrain Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe (SOVEUR) study for Central and Eastern Europe by FAO and ISRIC, and the Soil Degradation in South and Southeast Asia (ASSOD) study for South East Asia by UNEP, ISRIC and FAO.

We stopped irrigating our soil, as much as we could.

An aspen needs fire and dry soils.

Food safety in rural areas Agro processing Information exchange soils, climate and conservation agriculture.

SOTER Soils and Terrain (UNEP)

leaving the soil bare and giving off methane.

The report provides a good snapshot of some of the major soil degradation problems. The paper also highlighted the importance of soil organic matter and how the decline of soil organic matter is accelerating salinity problems as well as fertility problems.