Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya
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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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa
2022
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| author | 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. This activity builds on recent assessments including a paper that extensively reviewed the first-round of 184 NDCs concluding that only 28 countries referred to SOC, peatlands or wetlands (1). This review and the subsequent interviews with experts (n=8) indicated the importance of understanding the impact of land management on SOC storage and dynamics (1). As a follow-up, Rose et al (2) focused on the updated NDCs and found that the number of countries that included SOC in their updated NDC increased compared to the first-round NDC process (2). This review also highlighted that 19 countries highlighted the need for financing for SOC and related measures (2). |
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| spelling | CGSpace1265132025-11-11T16:29:01Z Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya Aynekulu, Ermias Vågen, Tor-Gunnar Winowiecki, Leigh Ann agriculture climate-smart agriculture climate information services climate change soil 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. This activity builds on recent assessments including a paper that extensively reviewed the first-round of 184 NDCs concluding that only 28 countries referred to SOC, peatlands or wetlands (1). This review and the subsequent interviews with experts (n=8) indicated the importance of understanding the impact of land management on SOC storage and dynamics (1). As a follow-up, Rose et al (2) focused on the updated NDCs and found that the number of countries that included SOC in their updated NDC increased compared to the first-round NDC process (2). This review also highlighted that 19 countries highlighted the need for financing for SOC and related measures (2). 2022-12 2023-01-03T19:22:03Z 2023-01-03T19:22:03Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126513 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Aynekulu E, Vagen TG, Winowiecki LA. 2022. Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya. AICCRA Policy Brief. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA). |
| spellingShingle | agriculture climate-smart agriculture climate information services climate change soil Aynekulu, Ermias Vågen, Tor-Gunnar Winowiecki, Leigh Ann Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya |
| title | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya |
| title_full | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya |
| title_short | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya |
| title_sort | including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions insights from kenya |
| topic | agriculture climate-smart agriculture climate information services climate change soil |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126513 |
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