Valuable soil data collected during decades of soil survey campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa are now easy to download from a new database compiled by ISRIC – World Soil Information.
Storing carbon in soil and vegetation provides rainfed farmers with an opportunity to participate in emerging carbon offset markets. The reward that rainfed farmers might be able to earn by storing carbon has now been calculated for the Upper Tana river catchment in Southeast Kenya.
The World Soil Museum houses 90-year-old soil samples of remarkable historical value. They were collected under the supervision of one the most famous soil scientists in the world: the Russian professor Konstantin D. Glinka. The story of this ‘Glinka collection’ has now been unravelled by ISRIC’s guest researcher Cristine Muggler, professor at the Universidade Federal de Vicosa in Brazil. The story, as well as some of the ‘Glinka soil samples’, can be found at the Museum.
