“Climate change, mismanagement is not an alibi”, the conclusions of the IUSS Centenary Congress

The soil can be degraded more by human mismanagement than climate change can.This is what emerges from the three days with the contribution of CREA

ROME –  The soil can be degraded more by human mismanagement than climate change can.This is what emerges from the intense three days celebrating the Centenary of the IUSS (the International Union of Soil Sciences), which brings together the national soil scientific societies of around 80 countries around the world, from a large part of the planet.

The international event, organized by the IUSS and the SISS (Italian Society of Soil Sciences) and sponsored by Masaf, to which Italy contributed significantly (the IUSS president Edoardo Costantini, formerly CREA, is Italian and, again Italian and branded CREA is the Secretariat, entrusted to Giuseppe Corti, director of CREA Agriculture and Environment and president of SISS and to Filiberto Altobelli, CREA Politics and Bioeconomics), saw the participation of over 1500 scientists.