The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity (GSOBI21) will be held online from 19-22 April 2021. The GSOBI21 is jointly organised by the UN FAO and its Global Soil Partnership (GSP), the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS), together with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI) and the Science-Policy […]

The 2021 Desertification and Drought Day is coming up on 17 June, and its theme is “Restoration.Land.Recovery: We build back better with healthy land.” On this occasion, the Desertification Research Centre of the University of Sassari (Operational Secretariat of DesertNet International) organizes two online webinar sessions on 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞. 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 […]

Mark your calendars! The Second Arab Land Conference will take place on the 22, 23 and 24th February 2021 and it will allow both in-person attendance in Cairo and virtual attendance. The main topics of the conference will be: Land management and administration: tools and practices Land and property registration: modernization and reform Land management in […]

The second Webinar on land-based jobs for young people organised by UNCCD will be held via Zoom on 25 February 2021 at 15:00 to 16:00 in London (GMT/UTC) or 09:00 to 10:00 in Mexico City (CST).

The IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) will organise a conference from 12-16 July 2021 in Brussels. 
Session Title – I.77:  Mapping, monitoring and modelling savannah vegetation with Earth Observation

The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA 2021), organised by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), will take place from 18 to 22 January 2021. 17 expert panels will be organised to discuss the theme “How to Feed the World in Times of Pandemics and Climate Change”.

The 19th session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 19) to the UNCCD will take place from 15 to 19 March 2021.

https://rcg2020.um.ac.ir/index.php/en/

[PREPARATIONS STILL UNDERWAY] https://phab2020.com

[WAS TO BE IN JUNE, NOW POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER] http://www.globalfoodsecurityconference.com/

https://eurosoil2020.com

[DECISION PENDING DEPENDING ON CORONAVIRUS PROGRESS] https://www.iucn.org/news/secretariat/201805/france-host-iucn-world-conservation-congress-2020  

[VIRTUAL MEETING] https://www.egu2020.eu/ Several interesting sessions for desertification research have been proposed for the next European Geosciences Union (EGU, ONLINE, May 2020) SSS2 – Soil Erosion and Conservation SSS2.5 Soil erosion and driving factors of soil carbon distribution: a worldwide threat SSS2.7 Advancements in modeling and remote sensing assessments in soil and water degradation processes […]