Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS and MWR

ISWC,CAS is a national multi-disciplinary research institute in China established by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1956. Its major mission is to develop knowledge and technology in soil erosion and its integrated controlling, land use and cover change and its environmental, social and economic impacts in the soil erosion areas. ISWC is in charge of several national or regional databases on soil and soil loss, land use, agricultural economic and soil and water conservation.