Soils for Sustainable Development at the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference November 16-18th

November 9, 2011. IASS will convene the Hot Topic Session ‘Soils for Sustainable Development – We Need to Invest in Sustainable Land Management Now!’ in collaboration with the Economics of Land Degradation Initiative at the Bonn2011 Conference: The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus – Solutions for a Green Economy, 16-18 November 2011, Bonn. The session is one of fourteen Hot Topic Sessions and will be facilitated by IASS Executive Director Prof. Klaus Töpfer. Scheduled to speak are: Prof. Joachim von Braun, Director of the Center for Development Research in Bonn, Prof. Rattan Lal, Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center at Ohio State University, and Dr. Klaus Lorenz, Research Fellow Global Soil Forum at the IASS, Potsdam.