Claudy Jolivet – Soil scientist at Info&Sols
July 2025
The Réseau de Mesure de la Qualité des Sols (RMQS) is a national soil monitoring programme designed to support public policy. Claudy Jolivet, soil scientist at INRAE and RMQS coordinator, presents this GIS Sol programme, which aims to monitor changes in soil over time by analysing various parameters such as carbon, pH, granulometry, contaminants and biodiversity. In this video, he explains how his team meets the needs of GIS partners and public policy.
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Info&Sols, a partnership approach to soil knowledge in France
In France, the work carried out since the 1990s and the creation of the Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique Sol (GIS Sol) have led to the establishment of a national soil information system based on soil inventory and monitoring, anticipating the European framework. This dossier retraces the development of this system, presents the public policies that have benefited from the data produced by this national system, and discusses the challenges of soil science research on a European scale.
