Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo (SBCS)

The history of the Brazilian Society of Soil Science (SBCS) dates back to the 4th Inter-American Conference on Agriculture held in Caracas (1945), where the need to create an Inter-American Society of Soil Science was recognized, which should be consolidated with the creation of National Soil Science Societies. Based on this recognition and with a considerable number of professionals working in the area of soils, some participants in the 2nd Pan-American Congress of Mining and Geology, held in 1946 in Petrópolis, RJ, defended the need to group research and researchers on the subject through more specific scientific meetings. This idea was widely discussed at the 5th Brazilian Congress of Chemistry, held in Porto Alegre, RS, in February 1947, where a new meeting was scheduled to create the Brazilian Society of Soil Science. This meeting was held in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, between October 6 and 20, 1947 and, at the end of the meeting, in the Conference Room of the Institute of Agricultural Chemistry (currently Embrapa Soils of Jardim Botânico), the first General Assembly approved the creation of the SBCS.