The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography invites you to join the 2020 Vega Symposium, on the topic of Soil and Civilization.

Soil is a defining characteristic of physical geography. It’s presence, absence, and character helps shape landscapes around the world. And though soil is the foundation for both ecology and human civilizations, it remains one of humanity’s least valued natural resources.

The Symposium will explore soil functions for sustainable productivity and for soilmediated ecosystem services from agricultural landscapes such as bio-diversity, carbon sequestration, water cycling, clean water, and control of erosion and flooding. Building on this approach the global spread of Conservation Agriculture and other styles of regenerative farming could form the basis for a soil health revolution to sustain farming well into the future and contribute to addressing climate change over the 21st Century.