Professor Rattan Lal, mentioned by Reuters as part of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2015 and 2016, won the 3rd edition of the Glinka World Soil Prize on the occasion of World Soil Day, 5 December 2018, for his outstanding contribution to sustainable soil management and the protection of soil resources. The award includes a monetary prize of $15,000, which Professor Lal is donating to an endowment to support the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center.  

FAO project aims to enhance farmers’ skills in assessing soil conditions and strengthen capacities of national soil laboratories

Presented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland and the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation (IUNG)

A la FAO, la Journée mondiale des sols est l’occasion d’appeler à une action urgente pour réduire l’utilisation des polluants

In the last few centuries, human activities have left a legacy of polluted soils worldwide and transformed soils faster and more extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history. While we can see many of the changes we have made to our planet, some of our impacts are virtually invisible, and soil pollution is a good example of a subtle enemy affecting everyone, everywhere.