| Expert Name | Mr. Robert Raúl Casas |
| Title | Director of the Soil Institute |
| Division | INTA |
| Institution | National Institute of Agriculture Technology |
| City | Buenos Aires |
| Country | Argentina |
| Telephone | 54 4621 3207 |
| Email | rcasas(at)cirn.inta.gov.ar |
| Work Experience | -conserving and management of soils
-control of water and wind erosion, recovery of degraded soils and rehabilitation of soils affected by salinity
-experiences in the humid and semiarid plains of Argentina and in cooperation nets of technical projects of FAO in semiarid areas of Latinamerica |
| Qualifications | -Engineer agricultural, Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires |
| Number of Publications | 110 |
| Awards | |
| Other Activities | -Postgraduated Professor in Soil Sciences
-Head of Chair in the Faculty of Agronomy |
| Publications | -„Erosión eólica: practicas para su control. En: Manejo de Suelos en Regiones Semiáridas. Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe, 1991 (Erosion by wind: possibilities of control. The treatment of soil in the semiriad regions)
-Editor de la obra Sistemas de Labranza Conservacionista, FAO, Boletín Técnico no. 66, 1992
(Process of the soil degradation in the Argentina pampa)
-“La Conservación de los Suelos y la sustentabilidad de los Sistemas Agrícolas.” Academia Nacional de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Tomo LV. ISSN 0327-8093
(The conservation of soils and the preservation of the agricultural systems)
Books:
-“Causas y Evidencias de la degradación de los suelos,” En: Hacia una agricultura mas productive y sustenable en la Región Pampeana Argentina. University Havard, David Rockefeller center studies Latin America and Consejo Profesional de Ingeniería Agronomica, 1997
-“Los Procesos de Degradación y la Conservación de los Suelos en la República Argentina” from: La |
| Discipline | Soil Science |
| Last updated | 09/05/2007 10:39:00 |