IAEA is hosting this workshop during the 18th World Congress of Soil Science to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA from 9 to 15 July 2006.

This workshop aims to provide a forum where scientific and technical advances in FAO/IAEA Member States can discuss using nuclear and related techniques to develop optimum soil-water-plant-nutrient management practices for sustaining crop productivity and environmental sustainability.

Some of the issues to be addressed at the workshop are as follows:
• the use of isotopic tracers and soil moisture neutron probes to quantify stocks and flows of carbon, nutrients, water and soil in cropping systems
• soil carbon sequestration and conservation agriculture in mitigating soil erosion
• degradation and desertification
• agricultural water management and productivity
• integrated soil-nutrient management in agro-ecosystems.