The society has established a series of Task Forces to investigate important soil conservation problems.

 Current Task Forces are concerned with:

·       Soil quality criteria

·       Traditional soil and water conservation systems

·          Land use changes and soil conservation

·          Farm scale management for soil conservation

·          EU thematic soil strategy

·          Desertification

·       Soil erosion map of Europe

·       Data bank on erosion plot studies

·       Rainfall erosivity map of Europe