http://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership This presentation was made during the African Soil Prtnership consulation workshop which took a place in Ghana, 20-22 May 2015. This presentation was made by Liesl Wiese and it presents the African Soil Partnership. ©FAO: http://www.fao.org

1. African Regional
Soil Partnership
Liesl Wiese
20 May 2015

4. GSP Africa
Launched
Eastern and Southern Africa – Apr 2013
Western and Central Africa - Mar 2013

5. Regional Priorities
 Addressing soil degradation (Pillar 1).
 Implementing SSM practices (Pillar 1).
 Soil information (Pillars 4 and 5).
 Resilience towards climate change (Pillars 1
and 3).
 Training and capacity building (Pillar 2).
 Linking with national, regional and global
initiatives (Pillars 1 and 2).

6. Completed activities
Eastern and Southern Africa
DSM Training completed
Oct 2014, Feb 2015
Western and Central Africa
DSM Training completed
Mar 2015

8. Implementation Plan
5 year implementation
Need to source funding
Clear outcomes and outputs
Clear actions and activities
Facilitated and supported by GSP
Secretariat
National contributions and support

9. Implementation Plan
Pillar 1: Promote Sustainable Soil
Management
Identify good and working SSM practices and
barriers to implementation
Support SSM by balanced soil fertility
management
Develop a monitoring system to measure
progress
Capacity building in SSM

10. Implementation Plan
Pillar 2: Investment, technical cooperation,
policy, education, awareness, extension
Short term implementation
World Soil Day (5 Dec)
Engage soil advocates,
policy makers,
promote soil education,
encourage and reward soil scientists,
engage with society at large

11. Implementation Plan
Pillar 2: Investment, technical cooperation,
policy, education, awareness, extension
Medium term implementation
Introduce soil as theme in schools,
Establish soil extension programs,
Develop guidance and policy framework for soil
assessment,
Documentation tools and curricula to be updated
Increase involvement of young soil scientists in
international training events

12. Implementation Plan
Pillar 2: Investment, technical cooperation,
policy, education, awareness, extension
Long term implementation
Engage with international stakeholders to promote
importance of soils
Develop awareness approaches
Effective communication to policy makers

13. Implementation Plan
Pillar 3: Promote targeted soil research
Plan of Action still to be endorsed

14. Implementation Plan
Pillar 4: Enhance soil data and information
Integrate global soil information system with
Global Earth Observing System of Systems
Training on global soil information system
System for monitoring and forecasting
condition of soil resources
Use data from national and within-country
systems

15. Implementation Plan
Pillar 5: Harmonization of methods,
measurements and indicators
Create reference system for integration of soil
maps from different sources
Develop over-arching soil description system
Harmonization process to follow established
principles
Use FAO (2006) Guidelines if no national
method available
Review sampling, preparation and
measurement practices

16. Implementation Plan
Pillar 5: Harmonization of methods,
measurements and indicators
Develop indicators for monitoring soil condition
Soil classification by WRB or USDA Soil
Taxonomy
Develop correlation procedures and
evaluation functions