The Latin America and Caribbean Soil Bureau Network has been formally established during the meeting held in Rio in July 2010. Fifty-nine people attended the launch event. Of these, 22 were representatives of 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries.

The second meeting took place in Mar del Plata (April 2012), in the occasion of the XIX Congress of Latin American Soil Science Societies. Thirty-five participants, in representation of 20 LAC countries, two European countries and two international organizations, attended this meeting.

The activities organized in Mar del Plata gave an opportunity to present, to a wide community of soil scientists, the activities of the EUROCLIMA programme, to update on the status of the atlas and to present the Latin America and Caribbean Soil Bureau Network, which will contribute substantially, to the establishment of the regional node of the Global Soil Partnership.

As a joint activity of the EUROCLIMA programme and of the Latin America and Caribbean Soil Bureau Network, a workshop on digital soil mapping was organized during the Mar del Plata meeting.

This workshop, attended by more than 40 people actively involved in soil science, was also the occasion for the participants to present case studies and examples of excellence and good practices in the domain of digital soil mapping. Interesting examples were presented for Argentina (Marcos Angelini, Federico Olmedo), Brasil (Ricardo Dart), Mexico (Carlos Cruz Gaistardo), USA (Puertorico, Thomas Reinsch) and Colombia (Ricardo de Oliveira Dart).