Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia
Healthy soils are the foundation of sustainable and regenerative food systems and provide several vital ecosystem services. Sequestering carbon in agricultural soils, for example, can have mutual benefits for climate change mitigation and adaptation, food and nutrition security, biodiversity, and wa...
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| author | Masikati, Patricia Mwanza, Morton Aynekulu, Ermias Vågen, Tor-Gunnar Winowiecki, Leigh Ann |
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| description | Healthy soils are the foundation of sustainable and regenerative food systems and provide several vital ecosystem services. Sequestering carbon in agricultural soils, for example, can have mutual benefits for climate change mitigation and adaptation, food and nutrition security, biodiversity, and water resilience. Despite these benefits, there are few policies that incentivize farmers to invest in maintaining and improving soil health.
This policy brief highlights opportunities for the inclusion of soil health and soil organic carbon (SOC) into the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) as a key step for governments to support farmers in investing in their soil. We interviewed key informants involved in the NDC process to understand the process for the developing the NDC targets and investigated reasons why policy makers did or did not include soil in these targets. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1265122025-11-11T16:29:02Z Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia Masikati, Patricia Mwanza, Morton Aynekulu, Ermias Vågen, Tor-Gunnar Winowiecki, Leigh Ann agriculture climate-smart agriculture soil organic carbon soil climate change climate change mitigation Healthy soils are the foundation of sustainable and regenerative food systems and provide several vital ecosystem services. Sequestering carbon in agricultural soils, for example, can have mutual benefits for climate change mitigation and adaptation, food and nutrition security, biodiversity, and water resilience. Despite these benefits, there are few policies that incentivize farmers to invest in maintaining and improving soil health. This policy brief highlights opportunities for the inclusion of soil health and soil organic carbon (SOC) into the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) as a key step for governments to support farmers in investing in their soil. We interviewed key informants involved in the NDC process to understand the process for the developing the NDC targets and investigated reasons why policy makers did or did not include soil in these targets. 2022-12 2023-01-03T17:00:48Z 2023-01-03T17:00:48Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126512 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Masikati P, Mwanza M, Aynekulu E, Vagen TG, Winowiecki LA. 2022. Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia. AICCRA Policy Brief. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA). |
| spellingShingle | agriculture climate-smart agriculture soil organic carbon soil climate change climate change mitigation Masikati, Patricia Mwanza, Morton Aynekulu, Ermias Vågen, Tor-Gunnar Winowiecki, Leigh Ann Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia |
| title | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia |
| title_full | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia |
| title_fullStr | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia |
| title_short | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia |
| title_sort | including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions insights from zambia |
| topic | agriculture climate-smart agriculture soil organic carbon soil climate change climate change mitigation |
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