ISRIC, International Soil Reference and Information Centre
Based at Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mandate: To increase knowledge of the land, its soils in particular, and to support the sustainable use of land resources.
Objectives:
1. To inform and educate - through the World Soil Museum, public information, education, discussion and publication
2. To serve the scientific community as custodian of world soil information collecting, scrutinising, analysing and disseminating data and information, and making them freely available
3. To undertake applied research on land and water resources