From the silt of the Nile in ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia's fertile crescent, from the terraced fields of the Andes to China’s Five Sacred Soils at the Altar of Earth and Grain, the soil itself is an epic of civilization rooted deeply in the Earth. Across China, the arid, erosion-prone loess soils in Northern China compose chapters of agricultural wisdom; the once-wild marshlands in Southern China have transformed into a land of rice and fish; the Northeast China has turned from the former "Great Northern Wilderness" into today’s fertile granary; and the red soils of the south now breathe with the fragrance of tea and citrus — each a testament to the dialogue between humanity and the soils over millennia.

Join us at the 23rd World Congress of Soil Science, to be held in Nanjing, China, from June 7 to 12, 2026. The final deadline for abstract submission is January 16, 2026. Together, let us sow the seeds of science in the very soil that carries our shared civilizational memory.