One of the IPDRE faculty members‒Specially-appointed Professor Nigussie Haregeweyn Ayehu‒ was invited by the FAO as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue (SI) of the International Soil and Water Conservation Research Journal (Elsevier®) with impact factor = 6.027 (2020). 

We are happy to announce that the SI he worked on has been published in December 2020. The journal is organized by the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC) in partnership with UNESCO, International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation, China Water & Power Press and China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research.

Cruse, R., Calzolari, C., Anjos, L., Haregeweyn, N., Lefevre, C. (Eds.). 2020. Soil erosion assessment, tools and data; creation, consolidation, and harmonization - A special issue from the Global Symposium on Soil Erosion 2019 (Rome, FAO HQ).

Prof. Haregeweyn has actively been involved with the international soil erosion research community and was invited to the Global Symposium on Soil Erosion 2019 (Rome, FAO HQ) hosted by FAO as a representative speaker on the topic of the SI. This SI focuses on creation, consolidation, and harmonization of soil erosion assessment, tools and data. 

You can download the full issue at the following link:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-soil-and-water-conservation-research/vol/8/issue/4　 

Definitely check it out if you are interested to learn the latest trend of soil erosion research.