IUSS Centennial: a huge success for the Florence Congress
Bad soil management can endanger soil even more than climate change. This is one of the outcomes of the IUSS - International Union of Soil Sciences - Centennial Congress, which was held in Florence, where more that 1.500 soil scientists from all over the world discussed upon soil and health management, salinization, gender equality, global policies, risk management, regeneration, degradation and increase of the organic matter.
La kermesse internazionale è stata organizzata dalla IUSS e dalla SISS (Società Italiana delle Scienze del Suolo) e patrocinata dal MASAF, a cui l’Italia ha contribuito significativamente (italiano è il presidente IUSS Edoardo Costantini, già CREA, e, sempre italiano e targato CREA è il Segretariato, affidato a Giuseppe Corti, direttore CREA Agricoltura e Ambiente e presidente SISS e a Filiberto Altobelli, CREA Politiche e Bioeconomia). Media partner dell'iniziativa GreenAccord, network internazionale di informazione e cultura ambientale e la collaborazione di Radio Vaticana
The international venue was organized by IUSS and SISS (the Italian Society for Soil Sciences) under the patronage of MASAF. Italy has given a great contribution to this project, being Italian the IUSS President, Edoardo A. C. Costantini, previously CREA, and the Secretariat, hosted by CREA and headed by Giuseppe Corti, Director of CREA Agriculture and Environment and SISS President, and Filiberto Altobelli, CREA Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy senior researcher. Greenaccord, an international network on environmental topics, was the event media partner, enjoying the support and collaboration of the Vatican Radio.
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Edoardo Costantini, Presidente IUSS
Filiberto Altobelli, Responsabile del Segreteriato IUSS, CREA Politiche e Bioeconomia