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Desertification and Drought World Day

The Desertification and Drought World Day 2022 will be celebrated in Sassari in the context of the Summer School “SANAI SA TERRA” (in Sardo language: “Healing the soil”) on the environmental contamination and soil restoration. The event is organized by the Department of Agricultural Sciences and by the Desertification Research Centre (NRD) of the University of Sassari, in Sardinia and is sponsored by
the PRIMA foundation, by the Italian Society of Agronomy, the Italian Association of Agricultural Scientific Societies and Desertnet international. It is addressed to graduate students, PhD students, researchers, agronomists, and other stakeholders will include three sessions.

  • Desertification and Drought World Day
  • 2022-06-17T09:30:00+00:00
  • 2022-06-17T13:30:00+00:00
  • The Desertification and Drought World Day 2022 will be celebrated in Sassari in the context of the Summer School “SANAI SA TERRA” (in Sardo language: “Healing the soil”) on the environmental contamination and soil restoration. The event is organized by the Department of Agricultural Sciences and by the Desertification Research Centre (NRD) of the University of Sassari, in Sardinia and is sponsored by the PRIMA foundation, by the Italian Society of Agronomy, the Italian Association of Agricultural Scientific Societies and Desertnet international. It is addressed to graduate students, PhD students, researchers, agronomists, and other stakeholders will include three sessions.
  • When Jun 17, 2022 from 09:30 AM to 01:30 PM (GMT+0 / UTC0)
  • Where Online event
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The first session, in Italian, will be focused on the national project PRIN RIZOBIOREM (in Italian) and will involve local practitioners and students. The second session, in English, is an international webinar focusing on the topic of the DD-day 2022 “Let’s rise up from drought together”, with the participation of the coordinators of the recently funded PRIMA projects on land degradation and desertification and a representative from the UNCCD Science Policy Interface.
The third session will involve three special guests that will recall the research achievements on groundwater resources management of prof. Giorgio Ghiglieri, professor of hydrogeology at the University of Sassari and Cagliari. 

At the event an will participate an ISPRA research and UNCCD Scientific and Technical Correspondant Science & Policy to combat desertification.

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