International Soil Reference and Information Centre

ISRIC - World Soil Information, legally known as International Soil Reference and Information Centre, is an independent, science-based foundation. The institute was founded in 1966 following a recommendation of the International Society of Soil Science (ISSS, now International Union of Soil Sciences| (IUSS)) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).[1] It has a mission to serve the international community with information about the world’s soil resources to help addressing major global issues.

Together with partners, ISRIC produces, gathers, compiles and serves quality-assessed soil information at global, national and regional levels. Work is organized according to 4 work streams: Setting Standards and References, Soil Information Provisioning, Capacity Building and Advocacy, and Derived products.[2] Reference collection includes country documentation (reports, maps and slides), soil specimens (monoliths, samples, thin sections, hand specimens); physical examples of the soil monolith collection are on permanent display in the World Soil Museum. ISRIC is a regular member of the ISC World Data System; in that capacity has been known as the WDC-Soils since 1989.

Building of the World Soil Museum, Wageningen campus
Location of soil profiles served from WOSIS (July 2016)


References
  1. "International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC) | Knowledge Hub". knowledge.unccd.int. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  2. ISRIC (2019). Annual report2018/2019, ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen (NL) (PDF) (Report). p. 17.
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