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Our 2016 team is characterised by a great Increasing interest in the Global Soil Week regional diversity and academic expertise In a nutshell: African Soil Seminar, Autumn 2016, Nairobi five years of the Global Soil Forum Brazilian Soil Gover- nance Conference, One Hectare – Ethiopian Soil 04/2016, Brasilia participatory Week, 11/2015, Since 2011 we have been engaging with our global network to make responsible land exhibition in a Addis Ababa public space, governance and sustainable soil management an international reality. Our research projects 2015, & and activities in four thematic areas are the basis for our policy engagement. Soil Atlas: Facts and figures about earth, land and fields – Publication, 2015 Better Save Soil – Soils in the Nexus – Film, 2015 Publication, 2014 Let’s Talk About Soil – Film, 2012 First Brazilian 3rd Global Soil Week: Foundation of the Soil Governance Global Soil Forum, 2011 Conference, Soil. The Substance BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE 03/2015, Brasilia of Transformation, 2015, Berlin Strategies to secure EMPOWERING TRANSFORMATION 2nd Global Soil Week: collective tenure rights – workshop and policy st Make land and soil governance Implementing the SDGs 1 Global Soil Week: Losing Ground?, event, 11/2014, Addis work for food security. Presenting in and by – 2013, Berlin Ababa Soils for Life, research from Bangladesh, Bolivia, conference, 05/2016, Follow-up and review 2012, Berlin Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, India – Berlin mechanisms for natural Dialogue event, 09/2012, Rome resources in the post- Follow-up and review 2015 Development of the 2030 Agenda – Agenda – high-level Aligning Financial high-level event at UN LAND event, 05/2015, Cooperation with HLPF on Sustainable New York Technical Guide on UN guidelines for Development, 07/2016, GOVERNANCE New York Governing Tenure Rights tenure governance Pro-Poor Resource to Commons Large-scale soil restoration Governance under Sustainable soil and responsible land for climate change adapta- management – policy event at UN tion, mitigation and food Changing Climate Rio+20 conference, Rio de Janeiro, security – high-level event at 06/2012 Global Landscapes Forum, 12/2015, Paris The New Urban Agenda ‘on SUSTAINABLE the ground’: Overriding the urban/non-urban divide – DEVELOPMENT GOALS Renewable Resources public dialogue, 04/2015, and the SDG Forum Berlin Soil in the Sustainable COSUST Special Issue: Development Recarbonisation of the Biosphere: Eco- Ecosystem Services and Carbon Soils in the Nexus – systems and the Global Carbon Cycle – Sequestration – Publication, 2013 Publication, 2015 Goals (SDGs) Publication, 2012

SUSTAINABLE SOIL Soil Protection and Pro-Poor Rehabilitation for Food AND LAND MANAGEMENT Urban Transformation: Strategies Security Closed Cycles – Open against Land Recarbonisation of City Degradation the Biosphere Publication Film Dialogue Exhibition

POLITICAL LANDMARKS

Launch of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Rio+20 UN Conference on 41st G7 in 2030 Agenda Paris Climate UN High-level Political Global Soil Responsible Governance of Sustainable Development, Convention to Combat Germany, 2015 for Sustainable Conference COP 21, Forum on Sustainable Partnership, 2011 Tenure of Land, Fisheries and 2012 Desertification COP, Development, 2015 Development, 2016 Forests in the Context of 2013 2015 National Food Security, 2012 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017