Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ethiopia
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 | Woldemeskel, Endalkachew Amanu, Tamiru Aynekulu, Ermias 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 Contribution (NDC) in Ethiopia 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 | CGSpace1265142025-11-11T16:31:26Z Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ethiopia Woldemeskel, Endalkachew Amanu, Tamiru Aynekulu, Ermias Winowiecki, Leigh Ann agriculture climate-smart agriculture soil soil organic carbon 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 Contribution (NDC) in Ethiopia 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 2023-01-03T19:43:31Z 2023-01-03T19:43:31Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126514 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Wolde-Meskel E, Amanu T, Aynekulu E, Winowiecki LA. 2022. Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ethiopia. AICCRA Policy Brief. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA). |
| spellingShingle | agriculture climate-smart agriculture soil soil organic carbon Woldemeskel, Endalkachew Amanu, Tamiru Aynekulu, Ermias Winowiecki, Leigh Ann Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ethiopia |
| title | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ethiopia |
| title_full | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ethiopia |
| title_short | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ethiopia |
| title_sort | including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions insights from ethiopia |
| topic | agriculture climate-smart agriculture soil soil organic carbon |
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