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CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

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Soil spectroscopy: an opportunity to be seized

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The trade-off between the growing need for large scale soil information and its high cost could be resolved by a widespread use of visible and infrared spectroscopy. While soil spectroscopy estimates of soil properties are not as accurate as reference soil analyses, they can improve regional-to-continental soil resource assessments, because more samples can be analyzed for a given budget. Light reflectance, being a physical measurement, can provide greater consistency across laboratories compared with chemical reference methods. This is the strategy followed, for instance, by the Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS; Box 1). Once a library is constructed, only a fraction of new samples (10% for the AfSIS project highlighted in Box 1) needs to be submitted for reference laboratory analysis to make reliable predictions. This causes a dramatic drop of costs.

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https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12632
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