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At the root of some of the most urgent challenges facing agriculture today is the global threat to soil health. Challenges such as soil erosion, compaction, salinization and water retention are compounded by the impacts of the evolving climate crisis, threatening the resilience of global food systems.
Maximising soil health can lock in carbon to mitigate climate change and provide various benefits to growers and ecosystems - such as soil resilience, improving profitability, biodiversity, crop yield and nutrition.
As land stewards, farmers can regenerate soils through the adoption of carbon farming practices. But what are the correct practices to ensure maximum carbon sequestration, emissions reduction and regenerative outcomes? And how can we ensure the significant value-chain support needed to enable this?
At the root of some of the most urgent challenges facing agriculture today is the global threat to soil health. Challenges such as soil erosion, compaction, salinization and water retention are compounded by the impacts of the evolving climate crisis, threatening the resilience of global food systems.
Maximising soil health can lock in carbon to mitigate climate change and provide various benefits to growers and ecosystems - such as soil resilience, improving profitability, biodiversity, crop yield and nutrition.
As land stewards, farmers can regenerate soils through the adoption of carbon farming practices. But what are the correct practices to ensure maximum carbon sequestration, emissions reduction and regenerative outcomes? And how can we ensure the significant value-chain support needed to enable this?
- The practices, such as cover cropping, crop rotation and no-till, which can help to restore soil organic matter and sequester and/or reduce carbon.
- The importance of taking a nuanced and context-specific approach to applying sustainable practices.
- The technology and data tools available to develop, nurture and maintain healthy soils
- The role of different value-chain actors in supporting continued innovation and scale.
- Paul Luu, Executive Secretary, The International “4 per 1,000” Initiative
The International “4 per 1000” Initiative encourages stakeholders to engage in a transition towards a regenerative, productive, highly resilient agriculture, based on appropriate land and soil management, which creates jobs and income and thus leads to sustainable development. The Executive Secretariat of the international “4 per 1000” Initiative is hosted by The Alliance Bioversity International-CIAT, an international organization based in Montpellier (France). - Florence Braye-Rigel, EMEA Carbon Farming Agronomic Lead, Bayer Crop Science
- Antoine Bedel, Forage and Service Plants Expert, RAGT
- Andrew Williamson, Farmer
Andrew referred to Carbon in-setting: this is the financing of climate protection initiatives that reduce emissions which are part of a company's value chain and also have a positive effect on the ecosystems connected to that value chain. A carbon in-setting project usually requires an adaptive and progressive approach. At the core of a carbon in-setting project, its key commodities will be evaluated for its impact, such as carbon emission. Carbon in-setting means funding your own carbon avoidance or removal projects without engaging in carbon market transactions, as opposed to carbon offsetting, which enables a corporation to purchase carbon credits from a project they do not own or control. - moderated by Toby Webb, founder, Innovation Forum.
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