World Soil Day

  Discover the inspiring efforts of the French Soil Science Society (AFES) , awarded the King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award 2025 for its exceptional World Soil Day 2024 campaign. Under the theme “ Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage ,” AFES stood out with its creative and inclusive “ Soil Week in Normandy ,” a seven-day programme held from 29 November to 5 December 2024. The initiative featured over 20 events , brought together more than 100 speakers, and engaged over 950 participants both in person and online. Highlights included a full “ soil pit tour ” across Normandy and the launch of the school version of the game “The Soil Collage.” Throughout the week, activities showcased how soil data and information can support decision-making, planning and environmental action through practical workshops and engaging conferences .

Cities are expanding fast; already home to around 55% of the world's population, a figure expected to rise to 68% by 2050. As urban areas grow, so does the pressure to provide fresh, safe, nutritious food and to build spaces that can withstand a changing climate. The key to meeting these challenges lies right beneath our feet—soils, the often-overlooked foundation on which they are built. Soils in cities do far more than simply support buildings, roads and other infrastructure; they sustain resilient and green cities. Understanding this connection can enable us to design and build better homes and communities in the future. It also reinforces the One Health approach, which recognises that healthy soils support the health of people, animals, plants and the environment. Soils play an essential role in growing our food nutritious and keeping our environment healthy. They are also the basis for making cities sustainable and resilient. On this year’s World Soil Day , the Food and Agric...

Introducing and planting new and useful forest and rangeland species , encouraging tree planting . Seedling planting . Miyaneh (Iran), 05/12/2025 - 19/12/2025.

La Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca - CVC y Cenicaña, conmemoran una año más, el día mundial mundial del suelo este 5 de diciembre de 2025. Para ello han organizado con la Secretaría de Ambiente y Desarrollo Agropecuario de Yumbo, una jornada con los estudiantes de la Institución Educativa Rosa Zarate de Peña y la comunidad representante del predio El Diamante en Dapa, municipio de Yumbo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Se llevará a cabo por lo tanto, una jornada técnica y se realizará una siembra de árboles donados por la CVC. Es necesario que se fortalezca el reconocimiento del suelo como un ecosistema estratégico en la producción de alimentos, captura de carbono, regulación hídrica, fuente de vida y todos los servicios ecosistémicos que hacen que la vida dependa del suelo, un lazo indestructible y permanente. Celebración del día mundial del Suelo en el Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Cali (Colombia), 05/12/2025 - 05/12/2025

  This program, coordinated with the General Office of Education of West Azerbaijan Province , will be held simultaneously in all counties of the province on December 6th (15 Azar). The purpose of this program is to raise awareness among students, teachers, and learners at various educational levels about the importance of soil and to familiarize them with methods of soil conservation. World Soil Day 2025, “The symbolic and simultaneous ringing of the Soil Bell in all rural and urban schools of West Azerbaijan Province". ارومیه (ایران), 07/12/2025 - 07/12/2025 -  Registration .

It time to protect agricultural land in the face of climate and environmental challenges.

The workshops are organized as part of the “EU partnership to protect agricultural land in the face of climate and environmental challenges. Caring for future generations” (ProLand) project , Program Erasmus+, project KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education (2024-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000252809). It aims to increase awareness, knowledge, competence and develop management skills about soil management in agriculture . Celebrate World Soil Day with us! Join the celebrations organized by the ProLand  andErasmus+ project. Let's do something for the soil! See what our partners are doing! WORKSHOPS - PULS -1  - SUA -1  - UAL-1  - KNU-1  - ROMA -3 . Attachment Size proland-erasmus.pdf WORLD SOIL DAY at PULS #ProLand#Erasmus+ Poznań (Polska), 08/12/2025 - 08/12/2025

  Three different attempts to services and evaluation of urban soils will be presented: 1. " Does city need the soils? " Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak. 2. " Urban soils under lens: the presence of microplastics and its impact on plants and humans " Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Medynska-Juraszek 3. " Arthropods as an indicator of ecological state of the urban soils " Prof. Dr. Iwona Gruss. Zdrowe gleby dla zdrowych miast . Poland (Poland), 08/12/2025 - 08/12/2025.

  Caribbean leadership in advancing soil health through the 25 x 25 + 5 Soil Initiative will be at the forefront, connecting policy, science, and community action. Join us for this important regional conversation and be part of the global World Soil Day campaign in a way that reflects our Caribbean realities. You are warmly invited to join us for “ The Caribbean Connection ”, a special World Soil Day 2025 webinar exploring the regional relevance of this year’s global theme. This interactive session will bring together Caribbean experts, youth leaders, and community voices to discuss how soil health underpins urban resilience, food security, and sustainable development across Small Island Developing States . The Caribbean Connection- FAO's World Soil Day Regional Webinar . Bowling Alley Hill (Barbados), 09/12/2025 - 09/12/2025. Register!

The 2nd Soil Week , organized by the Department of Soil Science and the Postgraduate Program in Soil Science at UFC, will be held in the city of Fortaleza - CE on December 9, 2025, with the theme " Healthy Soils: Knowing to Conserve " in commemoration of World Soil Day. We will present direct actions so that people can better understand soils and conserve them.  2ª Semana do Solo (2nd Soil Week) . Fortaleza (Brasil), 09/12/2025 - 09/12/2025

  Projectant futurs possibles en un món urbanitzat . Bellaterra (Espanya), 09/12/2025 - 09/12/2025 Cinefòrum Film: The Martian Round-Table: Mariona Ferrandiz (CREAF-UAB), Maria Sisternas (Hàbitat3-Ajuntament de Girona), Vicenç Carabassa (CREAF-UAB). Chair: Andrea Vidal (ICGC-UAB)

Over 80% of the food consumed in cities comes from family farmers who rely on healthy soils in rural areas. Investing in more sustainable agricultural practices and soil health in rural areas helps meet the rising food needs of expanding urban populations, while also protecting farmers’ livelihoods and strengthening global food security.  Healthy urban soils currently supply about 10% of global vegetables, legumes, and tubers for cities. They can help feed urban and peri-urban populations by ensuring that safe, fresh food grown in plots, gardens, or even on rooftop farms, remains available and accessible to urban markets. Urban agriculture remains an important part of urban socio-economic systems and provides new job opportunities for urban residents.   Through integrated land use planning , compact urban growth , and agrifood system integration , we can safeguard soils , secure food and build more sustainable cities. The City Region Food System (CRFS) planning offers one...

Cities are centres of traffic and sources of industrial pollution, waste and wastewater. As a result, urban soils can become easily polluted, posing serious health risks for residents. Actions are needed to identify, manage and restore such polluted urban soils .  Integrating green spaces, tree pits and green corridors can help filter pollutants . Healthy soils in turn enable greater green coverage, which absorbs less heat than concrete and asphalt, lowers surface temperatures, absorbs rainwater and reduces landslides and floods. As we build more roads and buildings, more urban soils are sealed.   Preventing and reversing soil sealing through city greening, on the other hand, can keep cities cool and mitigate extreme weather by sequestering carbon, retaining water and fostering biodiversity.

Green spaces  provide opportunities for recreation and encourage physical activity, supporting human health and well-being. Healthy soils are the foundation for urban and peri-urban forests, parks, gardens and urban trees. Living in cities surrounded by trees and parks provides recreation, supports well-being and human health. Green spaces are proven to improve mental health by reducing stress, anxiety and depression, and the simple act of spending time around trees can strengthen positive emotions. And because parks and gardens also encourage physical activity for all, when soils thrive and cities green, communities thrive too.

Cities generate about 70% of global waste. Improving how cities manage waste can directly benefit urban soils. When organic materials are safely separated and processed into compost, biochar , or biowaste through black soldier fly , and then applied to perennials or urban farms, they return nutrients back to the soils and support urban farming and healthier urban soils. FAO’s Green Cities Initiative (GCI), which aims to build vibrant, inclusive and resilient places that are good for people and nature. Redesigning cities to be truly sustainable requires reimagining how we manage our spaces, produce our food and use our resources. This transformation can start with one fundamental element: healthy soils.

Healthy soils at the heart of more resilient and greener cities. The World Soil Day Celebration highlights the Importance of healthy soils for food security , climate resilience and public wellbeing, as FAO awards two major international soil prizes

 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today marked World Soil Day 2025 with a global celebration in Rome under the theme “ Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities. ” The Day underscores the crucial role that soil health plays not only in agriculture but also in shaping more resilient, greener and healthier urban environments . With two-thirds of the world’s population projected to live in cities by 2050, urban soils are under increasing pressure from sealing, pollution and unplanned expansion . These trends threaten the soil's ability to produce food, regulate temperature, filter water, store carbon and support biodiversity. Rapid urban growth is also consuming fertile peri-urban croplands—some nearly twice as productive as the global average—placing additional strain on agrifood systems. This year’s World Soil Day carries special significance as it coincides with FAO’s 80th anniversary —eight decades of partnership, innovation and action for better produc...

  As part of the global celebration, FAO awarded two of the world’s most prestigious international soil prizes: The Glinka World Soil Prize 2025 was awarded to Professor Ganlin Zhang of the Institute of Soil Science , Chinese Academy of Sciences , recognizing his scientific leadership and global contributions to sustainable soil management and soil information systems . The King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award 2025 was presented to the French Soil Science Society for its outstanding World Soil Day campaign 2024, which engaged thousands of citizens, schools and institutions across France to raise public awareness of soil protection . Supported respectively by the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Thailand, these awards honour innovation, advocacy and excellence in promoting sustainable soil management worldwide

Endorsed by the UN General Assembly and facilitated by FAO and its Global Soil Partnership , World Soil Day has become a global movement promoting sustainable soil management and raising public awareness across governments, academia, civil society and communities. Urban soils—long overlooked—are increasingly recognized as essential components of sustainable, green cities. They produce food, support green spaces that filter water, buffer floods, cool urban temperatures, store carbon and enhance public health and quality of life. Emerging evidence also shows that contact with biodiverse and healthy soils helps regulate the human immune system. FAO continues to support countries in improving their soil management through flagship initiatives including the Recarbonization of Global Agricultural Soils ( RECSOIL ), the Global Soil Doctors Programme , and the work of FAO’s Technical Networks and Regional Soil Partnerships , which help translate science into practical solutions for farmers, m...

"A Ritmo di Legumi: Nutrire il suolo ...e le persone"  05/12/2025 - 04/12/2025 Roma, Italy. In occasione della Giornata Mondiale del Suolo promossa dalla FAO, il 5 dicembre 2025 il CREA Alimenti e Nutrizione darà il via alle sue attività per la IV edizione della Mappa della Città Educante – Roma Scuola Aperta, iniziativa del Comune di Roma che promuove esperienze educative e culturali per le scuole della città. Il laboratorio, intitolato “A ritmo di legumi: nutrire il suolo e le persone."

Evento académico con la participación de estudiantes y profesores de la Unidad Regional Universitaria de Zonas Áridas de la Universidad Autónoma Chapingo y la Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas de la Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango , en el que se tendrá la intervención de la Sociedad Mexicana de la Ciencia del Suelo por conducto de su presidenta Dra. Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios (recién electa). El programa comprende tres conferencias magistrales, posterior debate en mesas de trabajo tres ejes fundamentales: 1) Importancia de mantener suelos saludables ¿para qué?; 2) el papel de la Universidad bajo el enfoque Doctores del Suelo; 3) acciones de corto, mediano y largo plazo. ACCIONES HACIA SUELOS SALUDABLES PARA CIUDADES SALUDABLES. CONVERSATORIO Durango (Mexico), 05/12/2025 - 05/12/2025

 Em comemoração ao Dia Mundial do Solo, o grupo GESolo organiza um Dia de Campo repleto de aprendizado e prática sobre a importância do solo na sustentabilidade urbana! Será realizada uma apresentação interativa com apresentação de amostras que caracterizam o solo da fazenda, demonstração de utilização dos aparelhos usados pelo GESolo na caracterização do solo e apresentação de resultados de Pesquisa. Dia Mundial do Solo Brazil (Brazil), 05/12/2025 - 05/12/2025

The event will consist on talks relating themes such as soil health, city health, urban soils , soil management and city water supplies, and green drainage systems for resilient cities, closing with a roundtable-like session. The event will be carried out in an one-morning meeting on December 5th , at Agronomic Institute (IAC), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Technical Panel: Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities Campinas (Brasil), 05/12/2025 - 05/12/2025 Registration

  Conference for World Soil Day . Zahedan (Iran), 14/12/2025 - 14/12/2025. World Soil Day 2025 is not merely a symbolic ceremony; it is a global call for urgent action. Healthy soil is the foundation for combating climate change, ensuring food production, and preserving the natural cycles of water and nutrients. The success of this event hinges on translating slogans and commitments into tangible actions and real investments at the level of farms, communities, and nat... Register!

The event aims to celebrate World Soil Day , established by the FAO, by promoting scientific dissemination and awareness about the importance of soil for environmental sustainability and agricultural production. Held at the Federal Rural University of the Semi-Arid Region (UFERSA) , the activity will bring together undergraduate and graduate students from Agronomy, Forest Engineering, Soil and Water Management, and Plant Science programs. Over a four-hour program, the event will feature a keynote lecture, a thematic roundtable, and a technical-practical session focused on the Soil qualities description and characteristics, conservation challenges , and sustainable management of soils in the Brazilian semi-arid region. The initiative seeks to strengthen academic training, encourage interdisciplinary dialogue, and reinforce the relevance of soil as a strategic natural resource . "World Soil Day" na UFERSA Mossoró (Brasil), 05/12/2025 - 05/12/2025 Registration

World Soil Day 2025, Holding a painting competition for students entitled "Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities" in the city of Kharwana Varzeqan (Iran), 14/12/2025 - 14/12/2025 Holding a painting competition for students entitled "Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities" in the city of Kharwana with multiple prizes awarded. Register!

  World Soil Day 2025, Training course on the importance of observing crop rotation between cereals and legumes in soil fertility in the village of KohneLo . Varzeqan (Iran), 14/12/2025 - 14/12/2025. Training course on the importance of observing crop rotation between cereals and legumes in soil fertility in Kohne Lou village, Varzegan county. Register!

World Soil Day 2025 focuses on the vital role that soils play in shaping sustainable, productive, and climate-resilient urban environments. As cities grow and climate challenges intensify, healthy soils are increasingly recognised as a critical resource for securing food, protecting water, regulating temperatures, and supporting biodiversity. This year marks six years of Malaysia’s ongoing collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in advancing the World Soil Day movement — a commitment to raising national awareness on soil stewardship and empowering communities to safeguard this foundational ecosystem. To deepen this understanding, the 2025 celebration features a special dual-site farm immersion programme at Oasis Herbal Farm and Sky Ladder Pineapple Farm in Port Dickson. This hands-on experience allows participants to learn directly from soil scientists, regenerative agriculture practitioners, and farm leaders who are actively restoring soil ecosystems and streng...

  World Soil Day 2025, Educational and promotional course on conservation tillage machinery on the occasion of World Soil Day in the village of Dizaj Malek . Varzeqan (Iran), 15/12/2025 - 15/12/2025. Educational and promotional course on conservation tillage machinery on the occasion of World Soil Day in the village of Dizaj Malek Varzagan County. Register!

  World Soil Day 2025, Training course on observing crop rotation and its importance in soil fertility in Sorkheh Dizaj village, Varzegan county .  15/12/2025 - 15/12/2025 Training course on observing crop rotation and its importance in soil fertility in Sorkheh Dizaj village, Varzeghan county. Register!

  World Soil Day 2025, Educational class in Dastjerd village, Varzegan county, entitled "Optimal plant nutrition and its role in healthy soil" . Varzeqan (Iran), 16/12/2025 - 16/12/2025. Educational class in Dastjerd village, Varzegan county, entitled Optimal plant nutrition and its role in healthy soil. Register!

  World Soil Day 2025, Meeting to prevent unauthorized construction on fertile lands in Varzagan County Varzeqan (Iran), 16/12/2025 - 16/12/2025. Meeting to prevent unauthorized construction on fertile lands in Varzagan County with the participation of department heads. Register!

  World Soil Day 2025, Holding a one-day conference on the importance of healthy soil in healthy cities by the village head of Negarestan village Varzeqan (Iran), 16/12/2025 - 16/12/2025. Holding a one-day conference on the importance of healthy soil in healthy cities by the village head of Negarestan village. Register!

  World Soil Day 2025, Holding a roundtable discussion on the importance of healthy soil in healthy cities by the village head of Rozi village in Varzagan County on the occasion of World Soil Day Varzeqan (Iran), 17/12/2025 - 17/12/2025 Holding a roundtable discussion on the importance of healthy soil in healthy cities by the village head of Rozi village in Varzagan County on the occasion of World Soil Day 2025. Register!

  World Soil Day 2025 conference . Tehran (Iran), 17/12/2025 - 17/12/2025. Holding a scientific conference on soil conservation with the participation of agricultural engineering and environmental protection experts with the slogan: Healthy soils for healthy cities. Register!

  World Soil Day 2025,Symbolic soil bell program in shahid hasan tavcoli hischool . Ravar (Iran), 17/12/2025 - 17/12/2025 Register! Due to the fact that it is the of commemoration of the soil and the day of the week, the soil bell will be rung at the Shahid Hassan Tavakoli School in Ravar city.

  World Soil Day 2025, Raising awareness among the general public at religious gatherings on weekends (Friday) ravar city - kerman . Ravar (Iran), 26/12/2025 - 26/12/2025. World Soil Day 2025, Raising awareness among the general public at religious gatherings on weekends (Friday) ravar city - kerman. Register!

World Soil Day 2025, celebration of World Soil Day at school . Bandar-e Mahshahr (Iran), 29/12/2025 - 29/12/2025. Installing a banner with the participation of the school student of the Shaheed Khezraei School. Register to participate!

  Increase awareness, knowledge, competence and develop management skills in the face of the impact of climate change on agriculture The Project EU partnership to protect agricultural land

world soil day 2025 , Soil Erosion Management Training Course. Chabahar (Iran), 30/12/2025 - 01/12/2025.  Training Course. Register to participate!

Healthy Soils for healthy Cities. We celebrate World Soil Day (WSD) annually on 5 December to raise global awareness about the role soils play in agricultural development, ecosystem functions and food security. Explore the events nearby you: Worldwide events held in celebration of the World Soil Day 2025. EVENTS : List of events 95% of our food comes from soils.33% of soils are degraded. It can take up to 1 000 years to produce just 2-3 cm of soil. Soils supply 15 of the 18 naturally occurring chemical elements essential to plants.There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of soil than people on Earth. 2 billion people worldwide suffer from lack of micronutrients, known as hidden hunger. Up to 58% more food could be produced through sustainable soil management. Soil is home to nearly 59% of Earth’s species. Campaign materials Social Media Cards  Find t he logo in your language ! Don’t see your language? Let us know so we can add it Campaign materials Endorsed by the Food and A...