The IASS Global Soil Forum will offer the First Global Soil Week to be held in Berlin from 18 – 22 November 2012 as a follow up process to Rio+20. It will provide a platform to initiate follow up actions on land and soil related discussions held in Rio.

The Global Soil Week will be an annual global multi-stakeholder event devoted to soils and sustainable land and soil management. It will offer a forum of interactive exchange and dialogue where stakeholders from science, government, business and civil society will come together to share their land and soil related experience and expertise and to develop future plans of action for sustainable land/soil management and governance.

The Global Soil Week will take place within the framework of the Global Soil Partnership. Partners of the Global Soil Week are the European Commission, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the German Federal Environmental Agency and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.