World Soil Day 2020 Official Celebrations, 4 December 2020

1. Laura Bertha Reyes
President of the International
Union of Soil Science

2. International Union of Soil
Sciences
“Because we can live without food perhaps some weeks,
without drinking during some few days, and without
breathing oxygen, just a few minutes,….. but all this,
depends on the existence on a fertile Soil on Earth”
(Reyes-Sánchez, 2016)

3. * “Stop the land degradation as the most insidious
and underestimated challenge of the 21st century”
* “Direct the main focus of all activities on
school age children and young adults (who will be
teenagers and young adults in 10 years' time)”
IUSS International Decade of Soil

5. JiaJia Hamner (freelance,
United States) and Sharada
Keats (Global Alliance for
Improved Nutrition, United
Kingdom), won the first
prize with "The science &
spectacle of Soil Life by
Roly Poly".

6. Katelyn Lutes and
Benjamin Ellert
(Agriculture & Agri-
Food Canada) won
the second prize
with "Soil
biodiversity.
What's most
important?".

7. Claudio Lucas Capeche,
Julia Franco Stuchi, Milena
Pessoa Pagliacci, Fabrício de
Martino, Alexandre Abrantes
Cotta de Mello, Antonio
Augusto Bianchi, Maya
Stuchi Tedjini, Kelita Carlos
Andrade (Embrapa Solos,
Brazil) won the third prize
with "The home of life. I am
a living soil".

14. #TogetherWeAreStronger
www.iuss-goes-to-school.org.mx
http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/en/

15. #TogetherWeAreStronger