Pillar 5 Sealnet

Nopmanee Suvannang (LDD, Thailand)Christian Hartmann (IRD, France & Lao PDR)

: a Lab network able to

contribute to GSP/ASP pillar 5?

1Asian Soil Partnership Meeting 14-16 Dec 2016, Bangkok, Thailand

Content of talk- Background of SEALNET and the goal- Activities of SEALNET 2.0 (2014-2016)- Current status of some asian labs: results from

Soil Laboratory Lab Survey Questionaire 2016


- Gap and need to implement under the SEALNET 2.0 in Asian & other regions

- Opportunity to implement SEALNET 2.0 in Asian & other regions

Origins of the Network1995

First mission: lab managers sharing experience for soil analysis practices and interpretation for Agricultural and Environmental samples.


1998 Workshop: preparing a manual on Analytical

Methods for Agricultural and Environmental samples (soil, plant, fertilizer and water)

2000Workshop on Lab Analysis & Quality Assurance (QA)

Donor and support Institutes1995, 1998 and 2000 IBSRAM (CGIAR), IRD (France), Crawford Fund (Australia), LDD (Thail.)

2001-2014 IRD (France) and LDD (Thailand)Limited donors ==> only monitoring mode, ad hoc training only possible when willing laboratories were able to provide their own support.

Outputs to date-Pre-draft of Manual on Analytical Methods for Agricultural and Environmental Samples: Soil, Plant, Fertilizer and Water

-Building the capacity of SEALNET Lab staff to undertake soil analyses underpinned by a

Quality Assurance/Quality Control program (QA/QC)


SEALNET 2.02014-2016-collaboration between 3 ASEAN countries supported by IRD (France) and LDD (Thailand)

- Thailand : LDD, KU, KKU - LAO PDR : DALAM, NUOL

- Vietnam : SFRI, ICH


2015FAO support for our annual workshop training

(Bangkok 2015)

&


ASPAC:(i) runs its own inter-laboratory proficiency testing, (ii) certifies successful laboratories

2016

&


ASPAC:(i) runs its own inter-laboratory proficiency testing, (ii) certifies successful laboratories

2016 + 2017: offered in a free registration to 5 labs.suggested by SEALNET

Laos, Vietnam, Thailand + Philippine, Indonesia.(DALAM) (SFRI) (LDD) + (BSWM) (ISRI)

2016

The Goal of the SEALNET 2.0

One soil sample

send in any ASEAN or Regional country’s lab

… you must get the same results

!!!


Lab. calibration and harmonisation:-in the SE Asian Nations (ASEAN)- in wider Asian regions.


The Objective of the SEALNET 2.0

- set up a regional Inter-Lab Proficiency Program to implement QA/QC procedures and processes.

Our question was: one soil sample to several labs…do we get similar, or different results?


i.e. ==> similar or different conclusions about:•evaluation of soil constraints to productivity?•evaluation of soil degradation/improvement?•advices on soil management options

to mitigate/ameliorate the soil constraints?

SEALNET strategy to get similar analytical results?

• facilitate contacts and networking ;• develop harmonised Standard Operating

Procedures (SOPs) for key soil tests;• provide training and capacity-building for lab

staff- workshops, technical communications;• implement a regional inter-laboratory

proficiency program to facilitate harmonised quality assurance/control (QA/QC) in labs.



==> SEALNET goals are complementary to GSP/ASP - Pillar 5

==> “Harmonization of methods, measurements and indicators for the sustainable management and

protection of soil resources”


Regional GSP Implementation Plan (Pillar 5)

Identify national and regional reference labs for training, soil analyses and sample exchange

Harmonize procedures and guidelineson methods of soil description, sampling

Build an ASP lab network: ‘ASPNET’ ?= expansion of SEALNET?

reminder

Why SEALNET 2.0 is interesting for ASP and other regions?

- SEALNET 2.0 is a tool able to support all pillars.

- Efficient data exchange between regions needs firstly to have quality data and

standardize/harmonize methods.

- ASEAN (10 countries) will implement ‘Guidelines for Soil and Nutrient Management’

that will consider only accredited soil labs.


Achievements of SEALNET 2.0 2014-2016

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SEALNET achievements 2014-2016

workshop trainings in 2014-2016 (Vientiane 2014 (20, 3), Bangkok 2015 (40, 4), Hanoi 2016 (25, 3))

- capacity building; - personal contacts and network development

Out put-Increasing performance of the lab technician -Increasing performance of the lab manager-Draft Standard Operation procedure (SOP) for Organic carbon (OC) and Available P


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Output- get to know lab performances through soil testing

calibration - improve the capacities of participating labs

Asian Soil Partnership Meeting 14-16 Dec 2016, Bangkok, Thailand

Inter-laboratory calibration of soil test in 2015 (18 Labs :Indonesia, Lao PDR, Thailand (13), Vietnam, Senegal and France)

Participation in ASPAC QA/QC Certification in 2016 (5 labs: Indonesia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam, Phillippine)

SEALNET achievements 2014-2016 (continue)

launched a soil lab capacity survey (Aug. 2016):questionnaire send to 15 soil labs in Asia,

we received 11 responses


SEALNET achievements 2014-2016 (continue)

Current status of some asian labs: results from Soil Lab Survey

Questionaire (2016)



Involvedcountries:


Soil Chemical Testing method


Soil Chemical Testing method (continue)


Soil Physical Testing method


Quality control


Human Resource performance


Conclusions from our lab survey


• very different lab characteristics(numb. staff samples, internal organisation);

• 50% do not have staff trained for soil testing;

• very diverse analytical techniques:• - harmonisation is possible for some (pH)• - but not for all (phosphorus, texture,…);

• Even with the same procedure, they are variations :• - local procedures (shaking time, etc…)• - unit to express the results (SOC/OM)


Suggestions to develop SEALNETin ASP (& other regions?)



Technical elements

for SEALNET (i) a laboratory consists in 3 levels of nested activities;

(ii) different actions are needed… for the different levels.

Management

Technical elementsReagents, instruments, etc..

Analytical methodspH, N, P, K, etc..


Problem:

Solution:

Strategy:

Cost (national and/or FAO ressources)


Problem:Lack of standard soil tests procedures; no harmonised soil test interpretation guidelines.

Solution:(i) Implement SOPs for a basic suite of soil tests used for the indicators (C, pH, NPK,…) (ii) provide a guideline to harmonise soil tests & also their interpretation.

Strategy:Needs coordination between lab managers, possibly fitting with the ASEAN « Sustainable Agrifood System Guidelines for Soil and Nutrient Management. »

Cost:Meetings (traveling and accomodation).


Problem:Many labs (i) don’t measure the ‘quality’ of their data, (ii) don’t know how to solve the problem of bad data.


quality control:measures the lab precision and accuracy

Precision: get same result when doing replicates.

Accuracy: get a result close to the ‘true’ value.


Using ‘internal + external’ control:precise and accurate.

Without quality control:not precise not accurate

Using ‘internal quality control’:precise! perhaps not accurate…

TARGET = ‘true’ or consensus value

= this is our objective!


Problem: (precision)Many labs (i) don’t measure the ‘quality’ of their data, (ii) don’t know how to solve the problem of bad data.

Solution:Implement Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and standard QA/QC procedures, similarly in all ASP labs.

Strategy:International workshop-trainings for lab staff & managers. Managers: must do the same in their country (language…).

Cost:operating cost in host lab.traveling and accomodation of trainers/trainees.


Problem (accuracy)Many lab isolated from international context,managers follow their own ‘target’.

Solution:Implement international standards of lab management.Participate international PT (external control)

Strategy:SEALNET free proficiency testing + collaboration with ASPAC (certification) to motivate lab managers/staff.

Cost:SEALNET prepares and distributes regional samples and buys certified samples


What support SEALNET needsto extend to ASP countries:

2. Fundings to organise workshop/trainings: -national participants,-trainers. soil samples.

1. Have a larger committee with active and motivated ‘experts’

3. Fundings to buy ‘certified’ and ‘distribute’ national soil samples.


What are the benefits that ASP can get from SEALNET (ASPNET)?

(ii) Knowing the data quality allows to estimate the indicators quality, the probability level of your scenarios of future evolution, etc…..

(i) Knowing the data that can/cannot be compared or har-monised increases the reliability of all indicators/maps/...

The soil lab provide most of the data used in other documents/indicators/etc. ==>

(ii) Quality improvement can be measured

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A tool for the future…

South-East Asia Laboratory NETwork

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