This year’s event – hosted by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) in Berlin – focused on the topic ‘Sustainable Land Use: Food Security Starts with the Soil‘. Organisations, among others, include the European Commission, FAO, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the World Bank.
High Level Panel 1: European Commission - Better Stewards Of The Earth: How Can We Use Soil More Sustainably?
- Organised by: European Commissioner for Agriculture
- See the recording and summary: the panelists focused on the following questions: (a) How can we reconcile more sustainable land use with the world’s growing demand for food? (b) How can food policy contribute to healthier soils? (c) How can research and innovation help the transition towards more sustainable land and soil management?
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High Level Panel 2: Responsible Land Governance for Sustainable Food Systems: The CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (CFS VGGT)
- Organised by: Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
- See the recording and summary: healthy soils and related ecosystem services are imperative for food security, ecosystems stewardship, and biodiversity conservation. Farming practices have a crucial impact on soil fertility and health. More critically, smallholder and family farmers require access to and control over land and other resources to build the resilience and sustainability of food systems. These issues are at the center of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (CFS VGGT), and its newest policy recommendations on Agroecological and Other Innovative Approaches.
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Expert Panel 1: Global perspectives on sustainable soil management towards food security
- Organised by: International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)
- See the recording and summary: Based on the concept of regenerative agriculture and agroecology, the Green Revolution of the 21st century must be soil centric, ecosystem based, and aimed at producing more from less, practicing nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and returning some land and water back to nature. It is also important to grow soil C as a farm commodity that can create another income stream for land manager
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Expert Panel 2: Land transformation: From competition for land use to integrative use
- Organised by: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
- See the recording and summary: Agricultural production must be intensified in a sustainable manner on existing areas in order to reduce long-term costs for people, the environment and climate. Forests, species diversity and their ecosystem services play just as central a role as innovation, knowledge and access to capital and technology. Yet, there is often a lack of efficient institutions to implement the host of existing strategies for sustainable land use and to reduce existing barriers such as access to land or means of production.
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Expert Panel 3: Success factors for Emerging Farmers – Paths of development towards sustainable land management
- Organised by: GFFA Berlin e.V.
- See the recording and summary: This panel discussed what private sector stakeholders need to offer and what regulatory framework needs to be provided by state actors so as to make production both sustainable and economical and to secure natural resource protection.
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Expert Panel 4: Satellite-based protection of property, possessions and climate in East Africa
- Organised by: International Rural Development Aid (ILD) + Catholic Rural People’s Movement in Germany (KLB)
- See the recording and summary: ILD/KLB and their southern partners have opted for a nationwide network structure. Partners can thus be put in a position to promote joint interventions up to the national level.
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Expert Panel 5: Soil is a Diamond – The importance of soil and its restoration
- Organised by: The “4 per 1000” initiative, an alliance of private and public sector institutions and individuals, is committed to promoting and implementing agricultural measures that support the capture and storage of carbon in organic form (humus) in the soil in order to increase and maintain the productivity of soils. The binding of atmospheric carbon (CO2) as humus in the soil curbs the greenhouse effect and increases soil parameters such as erosion resistance and water retention capacity.
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Expert Panel 6: From the sky down: Managing land use and soils towards net zero emissions
- Organised by: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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Expert Panel 7: Investing in healthy soils – Curse and blessing of private sector financing and carbon offsetting
- Organised by: WWF Germany
- See the recording and summary: The aim of this panel was to increase awareness among the political actors involved for the topic in general and the potential, but also the challenges associated with it, to put them in contact with important stakeholders, and to provide them with adequate information so that they will take an interest in further advancing the subject by initiating possible research or on-site implementation projects.
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Expert Panel 8: Innovations to Boost Investment in Healthy Soils
- Organised by: The World Bank
- See the recording and summary: This session highlighted the challenges from the perspective of private sector producers, and the innovations in financing (e.g. outcome-based financing linked to technology-based soil carbon MRV systems) and partnerships (e.g. private companies and farmer groups through the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) Impact Program) whose wider application could drive soil protection and restoration at the scale needed to benefit of farmers, business and the environment and create healthy people, a healthy planet and healthy economies.
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Expert Panel 9: The bigger the better? The consequences of land investments for land rights, soils and food sovereignty- Organised by: Forum on Environment and Development, INKOTA-netzwerk, MISEREOR
- Bread for the World, FIAN Germany
- See the recording and summary: From the perspective of smallholder organisations, light was shed on agro-ecological methods of soil management.
- Organised by: Forum on Environment and Development, INKOTA-netzwerk, MISEREOR
- Bread for the World, FIAN Germany
- See the recording and summary: From the perspective of smallholder organisations, light was shed on agro-ecological methods of soil management.
Expert Panel 10: Securing #soilidity. Challenges and solutions for sustainable land use
- Organised by: German Agribusiness Alliance (GAA)
- See the recording and summary: High-level representatives from business, politics, and science will discuss the most important challenges for the sustainable use of soil resources, focusing on Russia and China as two global players in agriculture
Expert Panel 11: Multi-dimensional soil health – pathways to incentivise improvements
- Organised by: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office FCDO/UK
- See the recording and summary: This event contributed to the on-going Policy Dialogue on Accelerating Transition to Sustainable Agriculture, co-convened by the UK and the World Bank, and to taking forward the aims of the Policy Action Agenda launched at COP26.
Expert Panel 12: Beyond policy change: using the VGGT to secure tenure rights for farmers
- Organised by: FAO, ILC, GIZ, Welthungerhilfe, Land for Life
- See the recording and summary: since their adoption in 2012, the VGGTs have been the key framework guiding significant progress in reforming national land policies, legislative frameworks and regulations. However, the impact of those changes on the ground has remained limited, with tenure insecurity continuing to be widespread (see the 2021 LandMatrix and 2020 Land & Inequality reports).
Expert Panel 13: Sustainable agriculture improving soil governance
- Organised by: Embrapa Soils – Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
- See the recording and summary: There is a need for understanding how agricultural transitions are being governed through a variety of actors and at several levels.
Expert Panel 14: Soil microbial diversity is crucial for plant and planetary health
- Organised by: Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (Leibniz ATB)
- See the recording and summary: This panel summarizes the current knowledge about anthropogenic influences on the plant and interconnected microbiome. The main aim is to inspire the development of solutions to restore and save plant- and soil-associated microbial diversity for ecosystem and the closely connected human health.
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Expert Panel 15: Just Transitions towards Land Degradation Neutrality: Tenure Rights for Soil Restoration
- Organised by: TMG Research ThinkTank for Sustainability
- See the recording and summary: The objective was to discuss the potential of the UNCCD COP14/26 decision on land tenure to achieve land degradation neutrality and soil restoration in the national context. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (Kenya), the Ministry of Natural Resources and Energy (Malawi), the Ministry of Planning and Development (Benin), Ministre de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable (Madagascar)
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Side event Trade
- Organised by: Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
- See the recording and summary: How can international agricultural trade contribute to improving global food security? How can improved access to technology foster agricultural development? What can be done to make food value chains inclusive, sustainable, and secure? How can we strengthen a fair international regulatory system for agricultural trade?
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28/01: The political main event
The Federal Minister Özdemir welcomed 67 fellow agriculture ministers from across the globe to the Agriculture Ministers’ Conference, which is hosted by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) during the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture. A joint communiqué was adopted and presented to:
- Dr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
- Ibrahim Thiaw, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
- Gabriel Ferrero de Loma-Osorio, Chair of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
- Dr. Luca Montanarella, Chair of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) Plenary Assembly
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