Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ghana
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 | Diwediga, Badabat Chabi, Adeyemi Arinloye, Djalal A. Chesterman, Sabrina Vågen, Tor-Gunnar Aynekulu, Ermias Winowiecki, Leigh Ann |
| author_browse | Arinloye, Djalal A. Aynekulu, Ermias Chabi, Adeyemi Chesterman, Sabrina Diwediga, Badabat Vågen, Tor-Gunnar Winowiecki, Leigh Ann |
| author_facet | Diwediga, Badabat Chabi, Adeyemi Arinloye, Djalal A. Chesterman, Sabrina Vågen, Tor-Gunnar 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 National Determined Contributions (NDC) as a key step for governments to support farmers to invest 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 (Weise et al., 2021). 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 (Weise et al., 2021). As a follow-up, Rose et al (202) 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 (Rose et al., 2021). This review also highlighted that 19 countries highlighted the need for financing for SOC and related measures (Rose et al., 2021). |
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| spelling | CGSpace1265172025-11-11T16:31:48Z Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ghana Diwediga, Badabat Chabi, Adeyemi Arinloye, Djalal A. Chesterman, Sabrina Vågen, Tor-Gunnar Aynekulu, Ermias Winowiecki, Leigh Ann agriculture climate-smart agriculture soil organic carbon soil climate change 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 National Determined Contributions (NDC) as a key step for governments to support farmers to invest 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 (Weise et al., 2021). 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 (Weise et al., 2021). As a follow-up, Rose et al (202) 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 (Rose et al., 2021). This review also highlighted that 19 countries highlighted the need for financing for SOC and related measures (Rose et al., 2021). 2022-12 2023-01-03T20:57:15Z 2023-01-03T20:57:15Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126517 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Diwediga B, Chabi A, Arinloye DA, Chesterman S, Vagen TG, Aynekulu E, Winowiecki LA. 2022. Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ghana. AICCRA Policy Brief. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA). |
| spellingShingle | agriculture climate-smart agriculture soil organic carbon soil climate change Diwediga, Badabat Chabi, Adeyemi Arinloye, Djalal A. Chesterman, Sabrina Vågen, Tor-Gunnar Aynekulu, Ermias Winowiecki, Leigh Ann Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ghana |
| title | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ghana |
| title_full | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ghana |
| title_short | Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Ghana |
| title_sort | including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions insights from ghana |
| topic | agriculture climate-smart agriculture soil organic carbon soil climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126517 |
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