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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-79-2016
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World's soils are under threat
Luca Montanarella
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European Commission – DG JRC, Via E. Fermi, 2749, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Daniel Jon Pennock
College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon SK S7N 5A8, Canada
Neil McKenzie
CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, B.E. Butler Laboratory, GPO Box 1666, Canberra, ACT 2601, Canberra, Australia
Mohamed Badraoui
INRA, Rabat, Morocco
Victor Chude
National Programme for Food Security, 127 Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja, Nigeria
Isaurinda Baptista
Instituto Nacional de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Agrário (INIDA) – São Jorge dos Órgãos CP 84, Praia, Cabo Verde
Tekalign Mamo
Ministry of Agriculture, P.O. Box 62347, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Martin Yemefack
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD), Yaoundé, Cameroon
Mikha Singh Aulakh
Banda University of Agriculture & Technology, Banda, 210001, Uttar Pradesh, India
Kazuyuki Yagi
National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES), 3-1-3 Kannondai, Tsukuba 305-8604, Japan
Suk Young Hong
National Academy of Agricultural Science (NAAS), Rural Development Administration (RDA), Wanju-gun, Jeonbuk, South Korea
Pisoot Vijarnsorn
Chaipattana Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
Gan-Lin Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Dominique Arrouays
INRA, InfoSol Unit, US 1106, 45075, Orléans, France
Helaina Black
Ecological Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
Pavel Krasilnikov
Eurasian Center for Food Security, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Jaroslava Sobocká
National Agricultural and Food Centre – Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
Julio Alegre
Departamento de Suelos, National Agrarian University, La Molina, Peru
Carlos Roberto Henriquez
Centro de Investigaciones Agronómicas, Facultad de Ciencias Agroalimentarias, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica
Maria de Lourdes Mendonça-Santos
EMBRAPA – Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation/The National Centre of Soil Research (Embrapa Solos), Rua Jardim Botânico, 1024, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Miguel Taboada
Instituto de Suelos and CONICET, CIRN, INTA, Nicolás Repetto y De los Reseros S/N, CP 1686 Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina
David Espinosa-Victoria
Colegio de Postgraduados, Mexico City, Mexico
Abdullah AlShankiti
International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sayed Kazem AlaviPanah
Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Elsiddig Ahmed El Mustafa Elsheikh
Department of Soil & Environment Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Republic of the Sudan
Jon Hempel
USDA-NRCS National Soil Survey Center,100 Centennial Mall, Lincoln, NE 68508, USA
Marta Camps Arbestain
Institute of Agriculture and Environment, Massey Agriculture, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
Freddy Nachtergaele
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Ronald Vargas
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
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Short summary
The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils has completed the first State of the World's Soil Resources Report. The gravest threats were identified for all the regions of the world. This assessment forms a basis for future soil monitoring. The quality of soil information available for policy formulation must be improved.
The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils has completed the first State of the World's Soil...
