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1. 5th EURASIAN SUB-REGIONAL SOIL PARTNERSHIP General report on the activities of the Eurasian Soil Partnership in the 2017- 2019 Gulchekhra Khasankhanova, Yuri Mosi, Pavel Krasilnikov (EASP)
2. Gulchekhra Khasankhanova, Iuri Mosi, Pavel Krasilnikov General Report on the activities of the Eurasian Sub- Regional Soil Partnership. 2017-2019 EASP country- partners: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russian Federation,Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
3. 4th EASP Plenary Assembly 13-15 December 2017, Tashkent, Uzbekistan The outcome of the EASP PA: adoption of “Tashkent Communiqué” adoption of the updated EASP Implementation Plan for 2018-2019 Plan Implementation
4. Tashkent Communiqué
5. Implementation plan  The report on barriers hampering the use of SSM practices has been prepared;  Review of the adopted national programs, legislation and projects towards mainstreaming of SSM/SLM approach and technologies in the EASP region are conducted;  Analysis of the role and contributions of responsible institutions to support of soil restoration and long-term INRM/SLM programs and SSM actions has been provided; The test sites for successful SSM practice demonstration have been chosen in Uzbekistan (in cooperation with ICARDA) Pillar 1: Promote sustainable management of soil resources for soil protection, conservation and sustainable productivity
6.  The main recommendations of VGSSM highlighted in the EASP RIP are being implemented : • minimize soil erosion, soil sealing, enhance SOM content , soil biodiversity and foster soil nutrient balance and cycles • prevent, minimize and mitigate soil salinization and alkalinization, soil contamination and acidification and improve soil water management  There has been significant progress in enhancing cooperation and links with ESP in capacity building for SSM/SLM, knowledge management and resource diversification to facilitate the effective implementation of the EASP IP and to ensure achievements of the UNCCD LDN goals and resource mobilization. Pillar 1.
7. Pillar 1: Entry point(s) for integration of SSM/SLM mainstreaming into national policies and programs in line with the SDGs objectives and LDN targets Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia Ukraine  National Strategy and Action Program to Combat Desertification in the Republic of Armenia. 2015  LDN National Report. 2016  IFAD Country Strategic Opportunities Programme 2018-2024.  Greening Economies in the Eastern Neighborhood Organic Agriculture (EaP-GREEN) project  GEF «Sustainable Land Management for Increased Productivity in Armenia» (SLMIP) 2015- 2019 UNDP Development concept “AZERBAIJAN – 2020: THE VISION OF THE FUTURE”  GEF “Sustainable Land and Forest Management in the Greater Caucasus landscape” project. 2013 Rural Household Empowerment on Management of Production, Supply and Market Access. Iran (Islamic Republic of) Ministry of Jihad- Agriculture Third National Environmental Action Programme of Georgia 2017-2021;  Georgia’s Second NAP to Combat Desertification 2014- 2022; Agricultural Development Strategy (2015-2020);  Strengthening Extension and Advisory Services in Georgia (SEAS) initiative funded by USAID, 2013–2016;  Participating in the European Neighborhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD),etc World Bank & FAO «Soil fertility to strengthen climate resilience: preliminary assessment of the potential benefits of conservation agriculture» project: State Science & Technology program "Fertility, Protection and Rational Use of Soils", JRC, 2014; Publication on SLM/SSM: «Impact of land reform on sustainable land management in Ukraine», «Management of soil rational use in the context оf European integration»
8. Pillar 1: Entry point(s) for integration of SSM/SLM mainstreaming into national policies and programs in line with the SDGs objectives and LDN targets Belarus Moldova Russian Federation  NAP to Prevent LD (including Soils) for 2016–2020;  Strategy for the implementation of the UNCCD;  State program of conservation and use of reclaimed land for 2011-2015;  State program on overcoming the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl NPP for 2011– 2015 and up to 2020;  State Program of Mitigation Measures for Climate Change 2013-2020, etc  National LDN Targets [Technical Report]. Chisinau;  Environment Strategy for 2014-2023;  Program for soils conservation and increase soils fertility for the 2011-2020;  Conservation agriculture program for 2014-2020;  The WB project «Competitive Agriculture of Moldova» (MAC-P): Sustainable land management program in post-investment grants. (2013-2017).  Federal Target Program «Conservation and restoration of agricultural lands, soil fertility and agricultural landscapes as the national heritage of Russia for 2006-2010 and for the period until 2013«  Federal target program "Clean country" for 2014-2020;  Development of land reclamation for agricultural land in Russia for 2014–2020;  Inter-Agency Scientific Expert Council “Global Climate and Environmental Management: Zero Emission and Zero Soil Degradation of Russia (Agriculture and Forestry)” under the Administration of President on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, etc.
9. Pillar 1: Entry point(s) for integration of SSM/SLM mainstreaming into national policies and programs in line with the SDGs objectives and LDN targets Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Tajikistan  Concept for transition of the Republic of Kazakhstan towards a green economy (2015);  2050 Strategy” (2012)  “100 concrete steps to implement the 5 institutional reforms”;  Improving the Climate Resiliency of Kazakhstan Wheat and Central Asian Food Security (2012-2014),etc  National strategy of sustainable development of Kyrgyz Republic for 2013- 2017;  National Action Program of the UNCCD (2015-2020);  Concept of development of the forestry for the period till 2025;  Program of food security and nutrition of Kyrgyz Republic for 2015-2017,etc  National Action Program of the UNCCD in Tajikistan (2000)  Living standards improving strategy of Tajikistan for 2013-2015;  Programme of reforming the agricultural sector of Tajikistan for 2012 – 2020;  Program of the food security of Republic of Tajikistan for the period till 2025  National Programming Framework , CACILM (2006, 2009)
10. Pillar 1: Entry point(s) for integration of SSM/SLM mainstreaming into national policies and programs in line with the SDGs objectives and LDN targets TURKEY TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN  Turkey Land Degradation Neutrality National Report 2016-2023; • 10th Development Plan (2014- 2018); •National Strategy and Action Plan to Combat Desertification (2015- 2023) • National Strategy and Action Plan for the Conservation of Biological Diversity ; •National Climate Change Strategy (2010-2020) and CC NAP (2011- 2023);  GEF/FAO «Sustainable Land Management and Climate- Friendly Agriculture» GCP/TUR/055/GFF project, 2016-2019,etc • National program of social economic development till 2030; • The Presidential National Program on Reformation of Social Conditions in Rural Areas, Cities, District Towns and District Centres up to 2020; • National strategy of Turkmenistan on Climate Change (2013) • National Forestry Program for 2013-2020; • National Action Plan of Gender Equality (2015) • Strategy of actions in five priority directions of development of Uzbekistan in 2017-2021; • Uzbekistan Vision-2030: transfer to the resource-effective model; • State program to improve of ameliorative conditions of irrigated land for the period of 2013-2017; • Supporting Uzbekistan in Transition to a Low-Emission Development Path; • The concept of development of an agricultural complex till 2030; • National Program of Action for protection of the environment for 2013-2017», etc.
11. Regional INRM/SLM programs and projects to support of EASP RIP implementation The World Bank - supported ECFS project on « Taking Stock of Human Capital in Soil Science for Central Asia and the South Caucasus (2018) Objective: to assess the status of human capital in soil science within Central Asian and the South Caucasus that are essential for the delivery of soil health in support of productive and profitable agriculture as one of the pillars of social stability and food security. The project aims: to carry out soil research and knowledge sharing activities for building capacities and improve understanding of how human capital in soil science systems respond to soil degradation, changes in management and climate, and development of a set of recommendations to highlight future soils education, research and dissemination.
12. Foresters from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan discuss methods of seedlings cultivation in the nursery in the Issyk- Kul region, Kyrgyzstan. Meeting of the National Pasture Management Networking Platform in Dushanbe, Tajikistan Objective: Land users, government agencies and the private sector in Central Asia adopt integrated, economically and ecologically sustainable forms of land use under climate change Regional INRM/SLM programs and projects to support for SSM scaling out in Central Asia
13. Regional GEF / FAO CACILM-II project on «Integrated natural resources management in drought-prone and salt-affected agricultural production landscapes in Central Asia and Turkey» (2018-2021) Community –level land use planning Catchment-landscape level planning Incentives (e.g. value changes, PES) in place Scaling up of INRM Objective: to improve land condition and mitigate climate change by supporting multicountry collaboration, integrating resilience into policy, legal and institutional frameworks, putting in place incentives for climate SMART agriculture and upscaling such practices.
14. Implementation plan  The Eurasian Soil Portal that developed as the extensive catalogue of soil-related resources and EASP knowledge sharing platform is working а http://eurasian-soil- portal.info Pillar 2:  The online courses for Eurasian partners on Food Security and SLM/SSM were provided (2017).  Advertising materials (brochures, posters, calendars, cartoons) were prepared to promote the knowledge of Soil and World Soil Day. The book Sustainable Management of Soil Resources in the Eurasian Region is under preparation The textbook on SLM for higher education programs in the agrarian universities is under preparation (in cooperation with ICARDA) 30 September - 5 October 2019, Chişinău, Moldova
15. World Soil Day celebration (in cooperation with the World Bank) 2017: Lomonosov Moscow State University 2018: Dokuchaev Soil Museum, Saint-Petersburg 2019: Sochi, Russia
16. Pillar 3: Promote targeted soil research and development focusing on identified gaps and priorities and synergies with related productive, environmental and social development actions  Research studies on the Economics of Land Degradation in Russia, Belarus, Armenia were implemented under support of the Russian Science Foundation;  5 CA countries were promoted targeted research in the frame of the ELD global initiative for SLM. Country Ecosystem Technology/Intervention Kyrgyzstan highland pastures Sustainable rangeland management, mitigation of grazing pressure Tajikistan foothills and low mountains No-till in irrigated agriculture, intensive gardens, rangeland protection Kazakhstan forestry and rainfed agriculture Increased utilization of ecosystem services in desert forests Turkmenistan lowland pastures Introduction of perennial and annual grasses; pasture rotation Uzbekistan Irrigated agriculture Advanced crop production methods: Leave mulch on fields; crop rotation, plant forest belts around fields
17. Small research projects focusing on soil salinity research were selected and implemented in the 5 countries of the EA region Armenia The revelation of the negative influence of salinization and alkalization on soil fertility of Ararat plain and improvement of their ameliorative condition, Belarus Analysis of spatial and temporal changes in agrono-mical properties of soils under conditions of technogenic salinization on the territory adjacent to the Soligorsk mining region . Moldova: Solonetzs and solonetzized soils of Republic of remediation methods Ukraine Evaluation of ecosystem services of saline soils under the influence of reclamation Uzbekistan Evaluation of salt- accumulating capacity of halophytes in order to develop an alternative method of controlling soil salinity Plan implementation Pillar 3.
18.  Publication of the outcomes of the First call of Small Research Projects Publication of book with full-text reports of the projects Publications of a special section in the Eurasian Soil Science journal  The 2nd Call for Small Research Projects on the topics Soil quality management Soil organic matter dynamics and quality Soil salinity management  Participation in current international initiatives and proposal for bilateral and multilateral cooperation projects submission to international and national fuoundations Horizon 2020 (CIRCASA) Russian Foundation for Basic Reserach Russian Science Foundation Others Plan implementation Pillar 3
19.  The impact of global and regional climate change on the soil condition of Eurasia in the past, present and future;  Mechanisms of stabilization of soil organic matter at the molecular and ecosystem levels;  Technogenic and agrogenic soil pollution;  The creation of improved and artificial soil;  Research of the microbiome and metagenome of the soils of Russia as the basis for effective agriculture and soil protection;  Digital farming, soil information systems, remote and geophysical methods of studying the soil and soil cover;  Economics of land degradation. Special Offer for Interdisciplinary Soil Resources Studies of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research «The fundamental problems of soil research and soil management in Russia» Pillar 3: Thematic Areas:
20. Plan implementation  National data centers has been established in Russia (3), Moldova (1), Belorussia (1) and in Azerbaijan (under preparation). A general agreement on the form of storage and exchange of data was reached;  The general object model of soil data description formed according to uniform standards (USSR) and similar state management (Ministry of Agriculture) and educational institutions, serves as a bridge between EASP partners;  Technical support of the EASP countries (transfer of software and adjustment of systems, data conversion, and the Information Exchange experiments, etc) is carried out within region, etc. Pillar 4. Enhance the quantity and quality of soil data and information: data collection (generation), analysis, validation, reporting, monitoring and integration with other disciplines Eurasian soil information system (EASIS) is established and integrated with unified methodology and software
21. Plan implementation  Capacity development on digital soil mapping, soil salinity management and soil organic carbon mapping implemented under coordination of the GSP and EASP Secretariats  The «Handbook on soil salinity management» was developed for building capacity of target groups and partners on soil salinity management and reclamation of salt affected soils (2017)  In September 2017, the Soil Salinity Management training was performed in Kharkiv, Ukraine.  Training workshops on the Eurasian soil information system, Moscow, Russia, etc. Pillar 4.
22. GSOCmap-Capacity Building Development a Global Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) Maps based on existing national soil carbon data to build the Global Soil Information System under GSP Pillar 4: Plan implementation  GSP SOC Mapping and 2nd Regional Workshop of the International Network of Soil Information Institutions (INSII), November, 2016  a 3-week training session of the FAO/GSP in developing national SOC maps and other activities. Pillar 4.
23. FAO/ISRIC GSP-SOC Training in the Wageningen, the Netherlands Plan implementation UKRAINE
24. Pillar 4 (EurSIS): Activities and contributions 2016-2017 •Training courses on digital soil mapping and soil information processing (Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2016) •a 3-week training session of FAO/GSP in developing national SOC maps , Wageningen, The Netherlands 2017 •The workshop on practical issues of EurSIS (Moscow, 2017) 2017-2018 •The regional workshop “Development of expert systems based on large-scale soil geographical databases” (Moscow, Russia, 2018) •Training courses for partners (Kyrgyzstan, 2018) 2018 •Participation in the Skype-conferences of the Pillar 4 and 5 WGs to discuss the implementation issues, such as SoilSTAT Concept Note, Country SIS_Survey, Country SIS concept note, etc. (2018) •Training course for partners from Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan was conducted (September, 2018) .
25. Plan implementation The EASP countries are carry out in the harmonization of terminology, standards and protocols around the world; EASP SEC specialists were trained at a GLP workshop on the harmonization of these soil laboratories (GLASOLAN) in Rome from October 31 to November 2, 2017 to facilitate the transfer of knowledge, skills and capacity building of EASP institutions. Pillar 5. Harmonization of methods, measurements and indicators for the sustainable management and protection of soil resources.
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