ESAFS
The East and Southeast Asia Federation of Soil Science Societies
ESAFS is the federation of soil science societies in East and Southeast Asian regions. This website provides general information on ESAFS and is maintained by ESAFS support office.
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December 5th is World Soil Day.
For celebrating World Soil Day 2022, Prof. Zeng-Yei HSEU and his students, National Taiwan University, made a video to add to the WSD event.
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ESAFS2022:
15th International Conference of the East and Southeast Asia Federation of Soil Science Societies was successfully held in Royale Chulan Hotel, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on August 22-26, 2022. The conference was organized by the Malaysian Society of Soil Science (MSSS) in collaboration with the Institute of Biological Sciences (ISB), Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya (UM).
The theme of the conference was 'Our Soils Our Future'.
Keynote Speakers:
1. Dato’ Haslina Binti Abdul Hamid
Secretary General, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries, Malaysia
2. Dr. Shamshuddin Jusop
MSSS Fellow
3.Professor Kazuyuki Inubushi
Professor in Tokyo University of Agriculture
4.Prof. Dr. Ir. Dian Fiantis
Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Andalas Padang
Opening and Closing Remarks
1.Prof Laura Bertha Reyes Sanchez
President IUSS
2. Prof Takashi Kosaki
Past President IUSS
3. Mr Ronald Vargas (virtual presentation)
Secretary of the Global Soil Partnership, Land and Water Officer (FAO)
Sessions
14 ESAFS Country Member Reports, 50 Research Papers by Oral and 59 Research Papers by Poster were presented.
ESAFS Award
Prof. Dr. Shamshuddin Jusop was elected as the recipient of 8th ESAFS Award 2022.
Business Meeting
News
The report of ESAFS 2019 Conference has been published in the IUSS bulletin No.136. https://www.iuss.org/
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Newsletter ESAFS 2019 was published.
14th International Conference of ESAFS was successfully held in Taipei, Taiwan (November 3-8, 2019) . Photo at the conference have been uploaded at the following site. http://esafs2019.cssfs.org.tw/
About ESAFS
The Federation shall aim at promoting researches in soil and related sciences and disseminating the acquired knowledge and technology for the benefit of the member societies in the region of East and Southeast Asia.
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ESAFS Awards
The ESAFS Award is presented to to recognize and honor distinguished contributions to the ESAFS.
International Conference of ESAFS
International conference of ESAFS has been held about every 2 years since the 1st conference was held in 1991, in Osaka, Japan.