Dhaka, Oct. 30 -- Every monsoon, farmers lose not only land but also the fertiliser they have applied: to flash floods in the Haor wetlands and to riverbank erosion on the Char islands. This week, soil scientists from around the world are meeting in China's Yangling, China to discuss how to stop soil erosion.

The first annual meeting of the International Network on Soil Erosion (INSER) is being held from Oct 27-31. It is organised by the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), INSER and Northwest A&F University in Yangling, and runs both in person and online.

INSER began work in September 2025 as a technical network of FAO's Global Soil Partnership. According to the meeting programme...