10 June 2022, virtual meeting (Zoom)

Organizer: Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Heilongjiang Province; Department of Natural Resources, Heilongjiang Province Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (HAAS).

Co organizer: Global Soil Partnership of FAO; China Association of Agricultural Science Societies; Heilongjiang Academy of Black Soil Conservation and Utilization (HABSCU)

Launch of the IRIBS

• Mr Lifeng Li, Director, Land and Water Division, FAO
• Mr Zhaoxian Wang , Director, Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of HeilongJjiang Province
• Mr Guiqing Han, Chair, IRIBS
• Video | IRIBS Opening Ceremony

Moderator: Ms Di Liu, Secretary General/President, HAAS

Presentations of member countries

• Ms Di Liu, Secretary General/President, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
• Mr Ivan Vasenev, Head of the Department of Ecology of Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Russian Federation
• Mr Wei Zhou, Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
• Mr Luca Montanarella, Senior Scientist, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, EU
• Ms Beata Łabaz, Professor, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation, State Research Institute, Poland
• Mr Giorgi Ghambashidze, Head of Laboratory of the Scientific-Research Center of MEPA, Georgia
• Mr Hussam Hag Mohamed Husein, Professor, General Commission of Scientifics Agriculture Research (GCSAR) Damascus – Syria/Institute of Geography, FAU Erlangen Nurnberg University, the Syrian Arab Republic
• Mr Rachid Moussadek, Senior Researcher, National Institute of Agronomic Research, the Kingdom of Morocco
• Ms Roza Orozakunova, Chairman of the Teaching Methods Commission, the Kyrgyz Republic
• Ms Enkhtuya Bazarradnaa, Researcher of Soil Science, Agroecology and Business School of Mongolian Univeristy of Life Sciences Darkham-Uul, Mongolia
• Mr Nuntapon Nonghanpitak, Senior Agricultural Research Officer, Office of Land Use Planning and Policy, Land Development Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Kingdom of Thailand
• Mr Yiyi Sulaeman, Senior Researcher, Indonesian Center for Agricultural Technology Assesment and Development, Agency for Agricultural Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture,the Republic of Indonesia
• Mr Xiaoyuan Geng, Head, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Canada
• Ms Skye Angela Wills, National Leader for Soil Science Research, USDA-NRCS-National Soil Survey Center, the United States of America
• Mr Miguel Taboada, College of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, the Argentine Republic
• Mr Carlos Clérici, Professor, Directorate General, Natural Resources (DGRN) of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) for Uruguay, the Eastern Republic of Uruguay
• Ms Lúcia Helena Cunha dos Anjos, Dean of Graduate Research of Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, the Federative Republic of Brazil
• Mr Mario Guevara Santamaria, Professor, Geosciences Center - National Autonomous University of Mexico Campus Juriquilla

Moderator: Mr Yuxin Tong, GSP Secretariat, FAO

Conclusion

• Mr Jie Liu, Director, Heilongjiang Academy of Black Soil Conservation and Utilization (HABSCU)