Introduction to mobile apps that help define land potential

Last week, Dr Jeffrey Herrick, a renowned soil scientist from the Jornada Research Unit, USDA-ARS, New Mexico (USA), gave lectures and hands-on training to the fellows in the six-month training programme. In his teaching, he focused on the Global Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS), which is being developed and will allow the potential of land to be defined. The LandPKS is designed to integrate local knowledge and global databases to support land management decisions. You can find more about it here: http://landpotential.org/landpks

Dr Herrick currently leads the LandPKS project and is collaborating on projects in Kenya, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia and Europe. He serves as an advisor to several US government agencies responsible for land management, is the US science representative to the UNCCD, and is a member of the UNEP International Resource Panel.