Ruedi St盲hli

Scientific Officer, Swiss Federal Office

Environment FOEN

Developing a national soil strategy: before and after

Ruedi St盲hli studied biology and worked many years on environmental impact assessments, planning of wetland protection and soil biology projects. Since 2013 he works for the Soil Section of the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment. There he was responsible for developing the Swiss Soil Strategy, which was approved by the Federal Council in 2022. Since then the work has started on implementing the measures that are outlined by the Soil Strategy.

Elena Havlicek

Scientific Officer Federal Office

Environment FOEN 鈥� Soil and Biotechnology Division

From soil policy to soil protection: a matter of cooperation and communication

Elena works for the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, in the Soil Section. She is in charge of the domain of soil biology (policies, monitoring, implementation), soil communication and soil protection in environmental impact assessments. She follows the international agreements and conventions related to soils (UNCCD, SDGs, European Environment Agency, Global Soil Partnership). She is also a lecturer at the University of Neuchatel where she specializes in the broader field of interactions between humans and their environments.

David McKay

Head of Policy (Scotland)

Soil Association

What restoring soil health means from the level of the farm up to the level of the food system

David works for the Soil Association as Head of Policy for Scotland, while running a small-scale fruit and vegetable enterprise from his home in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Cristine Morgan

Chief Scientific Officer

Soil Health Institute

Impacting Adoption of Soil Health Management in the US

Dr. Cristine Morgan serves as Chief Scientific Officer at the Soil Health Institute, where she establishes research priorities to advance soil health and develops the scientific direction, strategy and implementation for soil health research programs. Dr. Morgan is an adjunct professor of Soil Science at Texas A&M University where her research emphasis was in soil hydrology, pedometrics, and global soil security. She is an editor in chief at Geoderma, a global soil science journal, and a founding editor in chief of Soil Security.

John Gilliland

Director of Agriculture & Sustainability

Devenish Nutrition

Director of Agriculture & Sustainability at Devenish Nutrition, 听an innovative livestock nutrition company which creates complete solutions, improving animal, human and environmental health, simultaneously; and appointed an honorary Professor of Practice in Agriculture and Sustainability by Queens University Belfast.

He has been an award-winning farmer in Ireland, President of the Ulster Farmers Union; a Non Executive Director of the Scottish Rural College (SRUC), and an Energy Regulator in N. Ireland; while at the same time, he has been a policy adviser for Devolved, National and European Governments on Biotechnology, Climate Change and Sustainability.

In particular, for seven years, John chaired the UK鈥檚 Rural Climate Change Forum, reporting directly to the Secretary of State of DEFRA, London, and supporting the UK at COP15 in Copenhagen. While Director of SRUC in Edinburgh he helped set up their very successful Carbon Management Centre.

For the last six years John has been chairing the N. Ireland Expert Working Group on Sustainable Land Management, and on reducing Ammonia Emissions; and he currently is a member of the EU Commission鈥檚 Mission Board Assembly on Soil Health & Food in Brussels and presented the Devenish Lands at Dowth as one of three exemplar international Lighthouse farms at the recent EIP-Agri workshop on the Soil Health & Food Mission Board roadmap.

In 2020, John secured a farmer led, EIP Innovation grant support, to accelerate seven N. Irish livestock farmers to Net Zero, in a project called ARC Zero. This project was selected as an exemplar and was recently show cased at COP26. www.arczeroni.org

Phil Jarvis

Chairman of Environment Forum

NFU

The NFU鈥檚 vision for soils policy 鈥� from a farmers perspective

Phil Jarvis is currently Chair of Albanwise Farming and Environment. Albanwise Farming, manage a total of 10,600 hectares split evenly between Norfolk and Yorkshire. Sugar beet, oil seed rape, maize and potatoes form a major part of the arable rotation.

The aim is to farm commercial but sustainable way, pushing crop yields to the economic optimum but having the greatest respect for the environment in which we work. Soil health and fertility and the protection of environmental features are at the heart of our management philosophy, making sure our major asset, our soils, are in the best possible condition for successful crop production and environmental sustainability.

Phil also Chairs the Voluntary Initiative championing best plant protection product use delivered through Integrated Pest Management. Phil is member National Farmers Union, Environmental Forum. Phil is part of the industry working group on Farming Rules for Water.

Phil completed a MSc in Sustainable Agricultural Management at Harper Adams University and between 2016 -2019 was a member of the BBSRC Agriculture and Food Security, Strategy Advisory Panel.

Phil was former Head of Farming, Training and Partnerships at the GWCT Allerton Project.

fertility and the protection of environmental features are at the heart of our management philosophy, making

Ellen Fay

Founder & Executive Director

Sustainable Soils Alliance (SSA)

Sustainable Soils Alliance (SSA)

Founder & Executive Director SSA. Ellen focuses on vision-building and creating a shared space where diverse organisations can come together with common purpose. She is key to establishing partnerships and liaising with influential figures in NGOS, government, agencies & academia. Her experience and dedication to the conservation and sustainability causes enable her to translate relevant knowledge into positive change for future generations.

Having established soil as a policy priority, the SSA have begun the process of addressing the issue according to the different policy pillars and mechanisms that drive behaviour change: regulations, incentivization, education, monitoring, the food supply chain, the carbon marketplace etc., through targeted research and engagement with policy-delivery organisations – to explore their role and potential, and better understand the barriers that have hindered them in the past.

Arwyn Jones

Joint Research Centre

European Commission

Soil in the European Green Deal

Arwyn provides expertise in policy as the European Commission鈥檚 in-house science service. The Joint Research Centre鈥檚 provide EU policies with independent, evidence-based scientific and technical support throughout the whole policy cycle.

Healthy soils underpin the sustainable development challenges that are at the heart of the European Green Deal. The need for sustainable soil management is explicitly referenced in a number of policy areas ranging from biodiversity, climate change, agriculture and pollution. The vision of the EU Soil Strategy 2030 is to significantly improve the state of soils by 2050 and to protect soils on the same legal basis as air and water. The proposed Soil Health Law will specify the conditions for a healthy soil, determine options for monitoring soil and establish rules conducive to sustainable soil use and restoration.

Mathew Williams

Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

Scottish Government

Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture. Providing independent science advice on issues such as the environment, agriculture and the wider rural economy and champions the use of evidence to inform policy development and delivery.

Jack Hannam, Carmen Sanchez-Garcia and Erik Button

Welsh Government Soil Policy Team

Cranfield University, Swansea University & Bangor University

Jack Hannam

Finding common ground: A case study on academic, government and stakeholder collaboration on a soil policy statement for post-Brexit Wales

Jack currently leads the Soil Informatics group and the LandIS team at Cranfield University, who are responsible for the national soil data for England and Wales. She is currently on a part time secondment in the Welsh Government Soil Policy team.

听With Carmen Sanchez-Garcia and Erik Button

Carmen is a PhD student at Swansea University. Erik is a PhD student at Bangor University. Both Carmen and Erik are currently on placement with the Welsh Government Soil Policy team.

Ronald Vargas

Soil Scientist

Global Soil Partnership (GSP)

From advocacy on global soil governance to consolidation into national soil policies/legislation

Ronald Vargas is a soil scientist with over 15 years of working experience in natural resources management with a focus on sustainable soil management for food security and ecosystem services. He joined FAO in 2011 as a Land and Water Officer. Vargas is the Secretary of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) since its establishment in 2012

Johan Bouma

Emeritus Professor of Soil Science

Wageningen University

Johan Bouma is an Emeritus Professor of soil science Wageningen University. Johan

is a fellow of the SSSA (1985) and received its President鈥檚 award in 2014. He is an Honorary member of the IUSS (2006) and of the Dutch Soil Science Society (2010). He was the first soil scientist to be elected member to the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters ( 1989). In 2017 he received the Alexander von Humboldt medal from the European Geosciences Union for his work in developing countries, and in 2018 he was awarded the IUSS Dokuchaev Basic Soil Science Award. Most recently, Johan has worked as part of a think tank of the European Commission which published a vision called “Mission on Soil, Health and Food”.

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The theme for the听22^nd听World Congress of Soil Science听is听Crossing Boundaries, Changing Society听and this tour aimed to explore the ways in which soils have influenced communities, informed traditional practice, and continue to shape and influence society today.

The tour began by visiting听, home to听, where a guided walk demonstrated the integration of heritage and cultural priorities with education offering. Opportunities to view student build projects exploring traditional techniques including earth building, included alongside conversation with the Trust鈥檚 organic farmer and estate manager.

After departing Dumfries House, the tour headed for听听where delegates had the opportunity to explore the exhibitions on show, including听We are Compost 鈥�听Composting the We. Afterwards, delegates participated in a dialogue event co-hosted by elected chair and co-chair of IUSS Division 4.5 History, Philosophy and Sociology of Soil Science, Dr. Alex Toland and Dr Anna Krzywoszynska.

About Dumfries House and The Prince鈥檚 Foundation

听provides holistic solutions to challenges facing the world today. They champion a sustainable approach to how we live our lives and build our communities, run a diverse programme of education and training for all ages and backgrounds, and regenerate and care for places where communities thrive and that visitors enjoy.

They work nationally and internationally, but at the heart of the organisation is the heritage-led regeneration of the听听estate and its wider community, where their principles and philosophies are explored and put into practice.

The walking tour demonstrated the integration of heritage and cultural priorities with an education offering. Soil science underpins our work within the science, field to form and farm to fork curriculum content and demonstrations of practice were shown. Opportunities to view student build projects exploring traditional techniques including earth building were included alongside conversation with our organic farmer and estate manager who will explain how we maintain our formal and informal landscaped areas and links into partner organisations such as Soil Association.

About the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) and Dialogue Event

听is Glasgow鈥檚 hub for the arts. They host a year-round programme of exhibitions, events, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances. At the heart of all activities is the desire to work with artists, commission new projects and present them to the widest possible audience.

On occasion of the 22nd World Congress of Soil Science 鈥� Crossing Boundaries, Changing Society, an exhibition and educational programme,听, held at the听CCA听from 29 July to 10 September 2022. The exhibition features Absorption, a large-scale room installation of recycled soil materials by the Berlin-based artist Asad Raza, Gaia Glossary a research installation of literature, audio-visual resources and objects by the Weimar-based guest-curator Alex Toland, and an interactive installation in collaboration with CCA鈥檚 own Seed Library.

The exhibition and wider programme feature examples of radical composting that explore issues including food sovereignty, meal cultures, waste streams, allotment politics, right to land movements, seed saving initiatives, and soils as relational, subjective bodies in multispecies communities that demand attention and time in all forms of land stewardship.

Soil scientists, attending the WCSS were warmly invited to a dialogue event on August 5 at 3pm hosted by the newly elected chair and co-chair of IUSS Division 4.5 History, Philosophy and Sociology of Soil Science Dr. Alex Toland and Dr Anna Krzywoszynska. The event kicks off with several 鈥榩rompt talks鈥� and then transitions into 鈥渨orld cafe鈥� style small groups to focus on soil futures-making, reflecting on our experiences of soil connection, and collectively imagining what societies built on soil connections may look like. After the event, the organisers produced a rich narrative on the basis of shared ideas, which was performatively 鈥渃omposted鈥� into the exhibition鈥檚 research installation.

• Dialogue event led by the chair and co-chair of IUSS Division 4.5 History, Philosophy and Sociology of Soil Science; Dr. Alex Toland and Dr Anna Krzywoszynska

Dates:听Friday 5 August 2022

Departure Location:听Glasgow SEC

Finish Location:听Glasgow SEC

Board Basis:听Lunch, teas and coffees provided

PRICE:听拢80

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Professor Peter Gregory

Professor of Global Food Security and Chair

University of Reading and Crops for the Future UK

Dr Ranveer Chandra

CTO Agri-Food, Microsoft, USA

Professor Ismahane Elouafi

Chief Scientist

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

Soils and Sustainable Food Production

Professor Ismahane Elouafi is the first Chief Scientist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, a new position created within FAO鈥檚 core leadership structure. She has two decades of experience in agricultural research and development in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She is internationally known for her work on promoting neglected and underutilized crops, use of non-fresh water in agriculture, and empowerment of women in science.

From 2012 until her appointment at FAO, Dr Elouafi led the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture based in the United Arab Emirates. Previously, she held senior scientific and leadership 听positions in the Ministry of Agriculture in Canada and at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. She has also worked as a scientist with several international research organizations and served as a board member of several notable organizations. Dr. Elouafi holds a B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences and an M.Sc. in Genetics and Plant Breeding, and a Ph.D. in Genetics.

Professor Debra Roberts

Co-Chair of Working Group II

IPCC, Durban, South Africa

How transforming land use change could change our future

Professor Debra Roberts heads the sustainability and resilience functions in eThekwini Municipality (Durban, South Africa). She was a lead author of Chapter 8 (Urban Areas) and a contributing author to Chapter 12 (Africa) of Working Group II鈥檚 contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She was elected as Co-Chair of Working Group II for the IPCC鈥檚 sixth assessment cycle in 2015. She is also an Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in the School of Life Sciences and has been an advisor to the Global Commission on Adaptation, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and the United Nations Secretary General鈥檚 2019 Climate Summit. In 2019 she was included in a list of the World鈥檚 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy.

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