In order to encourage young scientists to contribute to soil and water conservation in the world, the WASWAC continually launches the WASWAC Outstanding Youth Paper Award at the Third World Conference. This award is aimed to presented to outstanding research papers on soil and water conservation by the scientists of 40 years old or younger by the end of 2016. Many positive feedbacks were received after releasing the announcement in October, 2015. Young scientists contributed on soil and water conservation or related fields have been submitted their papers followed our instructions. After reviewed by researchers distributed in the world, 10 excellent papers have been selected from total 30 submitted registrated papers. 10 young scientists from 6 counties shared this great honor, the information on winners is as follows:

The award was issued to the winners during the closed ceremony of WASWAC WC III. For those winners did not show in the conference, the secretariat of WASWAC issued the award in Beijing office or post the certificate and honorarium to the winners.

This award consists of a Certificate from the WASWAC and a $1000 (USD) honorarium.

The WASWAC Outstanding Youth Paper Award 2016 (DATUM) is launched with generous support from the Beijing Datum Technology Company (http://www.dtgis.com/ ).