Soil Information System for Africa (Soils4Africa)

Part of EU Open Research Repository
Published June 26, 2026 | Version 1
Dataset Open

Soils4Africa - Field data from a continental soil survey campaign

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
  • 2. ROR icon Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem
  • 3. ROR icon Institut des Régions Arides
  • 4. ROR icon Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization
  • 5. ROR icon Stellenbosch University
  • 6. BUNASOL
  • 7. ROR icon Institut de l'Environnement et Recherches Agricoles
  • 8. BUNASOLS
  • 9. ROR icon ISRIC - World Soil Information

Description

The EU-funded Soils4Africa project's aim is to provide an open-access soil information system with a set of key indicators and underpinning data, accompanied by a methodology for repeated soil monitoring across the African continent. 

This release contains the field data which has been collected by a variety of field surveyers, through a mobile application.

The CSV contains the data, the tableschema has description of the columns, following the [tableschema](https://datapackage.org/standard/table-schema/) conventions.

Read more about the research at <https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/862900/results>
 
 
 

Notes

IMPORTANT: quality control of the data is still ongoing. Updates and new versions of the dataset are expected in the future.

 

DISCLAIMER

Whereas every effort has been made to ensure the quality of the Soils4Africa point data, the Soils4Africa consortium does not give any warranty as to the completeness or accuracy of the Soils4Africa point data, nor that it is error free or of a satisfactory quality or appears precisely as described in any documentation related to the data. All other such warranties are expressly disclaimed.

The Soils4Africa consortium disclaims all warranties relating to the data, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, any implied warranty against infringement of third parties property rights, of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

The Soils4Africa consortium does not represent or warrant that the data will be error free or uninterrupted, or that all non-conformities can or will be corrected, or that the data are timely, accurate or complete or that are of a satisfactory technical or scientific quality.

Files

s4a_field_data.csv

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Additional details

Funding

European Commission
Soils4Africa - Soil Information System for Africa 862900

Dates

Issued
2026-06-26
Version date

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/soil-data-of-africa
Development Status
Inactive