Joint F’SAGRI - "4 per 1000" Southern Africa Regional Conference on Soil Health

Date: Wednesday 24 June (morning) to Friday 26 June 2026 (end of the day)

Venue & Place: Venue to be defined, Pretoria area, South Africa

Organizers: F’SAGRI and International "4 per 1000" Initiative

Contact: RegionalMeeting@4p1000.org

F’SAGRI, the French Southern African Agriculture Institute, together with the "4 per 1000" International Initiative, is organising this regional multi-actor conference involving experts from Southern Africa countries, in the interdisciplinary field of soil organic carbon, climate change adaptation and food security.

This conference is organised in partnership with and with the support of: Ambassade de France en Afrique du Sud, au Lésotho et au Malawi [French Embassy in South Africa, in Lesotho and in Malawi]; the Republic of South Africa - Department of Science, Technology and Innovation; ARC, the Agricultural Research Council (South Africa); the University of Limpopo (South Africa); the University of Reading (United Kingdom).

The conference will pursue the following specific objectives

• Deliberate on the potential, challenges, opportunities, solutions and strategies for soil organic carbon sequestration, soil health and agroecology in specific Southern Africa agro-ecosystems, including exchanges all stakeholder groups involved.

• To propose an implementation pathway from policy to action through a "4 per 1000" Southern Africa Regional Roadmap.

Please register on the F’SAGRI - "4 per 1000" Southern Africa Regional Conference page, before Friday 29 May 2026.

In that page, you can also find the provisional agenda and the call for posters. Would you like to take part to it, you can submit your abstract on the page of the conference, before Friday 12 June 2026.