CA4SH Partner and Steering Committee Meetings | September 2025

Written By Hanna Linden (she/her) | CA4SH Secretariat

CA4SH was launched at the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 and continues to grow, with over 300 members including government, NGOs, the private sector, research institutions, and youth-led organizations. The main goal of the Coalition is to improve soil health globally by addressing critical implementation, monitoring, policy, and public and private investment barriers that constrain the adoption and scaling of healthy soil practices. Central to this approach is experience and opportunity sharing, so on 8 and 9 September 2025, the CA4SH SteerCo and CA4SH Partners met to share updates and chart a way forward for the Coalition.

The main responsibilities of the CA4SH SteerCo are to 1) provide guidance and strategic direction for CA4SH, and 2) help build partnerships and identify opportunities for collaboration. As this was the second SteerCo meeting of 2025, the discussion included reflecting on the Coalition’s progress so far this year, and identifying strategic next steps toward the UNFCCC COP30 this year and beyond.

Main Reflections from the Steering Committee Meeting:

  1. Target outreach to expand membership 

  2. Identify SMART targets to report progress and results 

  3. Move beyond global advocacy to implementation on the ground 

  4. Mobilize resources and partnerships

One of the main reflections from the SteerCo meeting included the need to set Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound (SMART) goals to track the progress and impact of the Coalition’s work in line with our conceptual framework. We look forward to sharing the results of this exercise for feedback from the Coalition’s wider partner base, and encourage partners to share any preliminary ideas with the Secretariat by reaching out to communications@coalitionforsoilhealth.org!

 
 

Updates from the Secretariat

During the CA4SH Partner Meeting, the Secretariat shared some exciting updates on our progress throughout the year, including the following outputs:

Partner Updates

Opening the floor for partners to share their updates is a key objective of the CA4SH partner meetings. Here is what partners had to say!

  • Ambition Loop (Jennifer Lenhart and Wangu Mwangi) 

    • Riyadh Action Agenda - launched at UNCCD COP16, targeting restoration of 1.5 billion hectares by 20230 

    • Developing “breakthrough targets” and identifying initiatives to track bottom-up engagement 

  • Regen Organics (David Auerbach)

    • Producing organic fertilizers from waste, insect protein, and biochar, with operations in Nairobi and other countries 

    • Need for national and regional soil health strategies

  • The Soil Solution NGO (Ebrima Jarra) 

    • Junior Soil Scientist Program training students on soil testing

    • Partnerships with local finance providers to improve soil practices 

    • Delegation at COP30 and side events at UNEA-7 

    • Email: jarraebrima08@gmail.com 

  • African Youth Integrated For Socio-Economic Development - AYISD (Mbilizi Kalombo) 

    • Work in refugee settlements on composting and community woodlots 

    • Publishing articles on soil health advocacy 

  • Smart Afrogrics (Boaz Tuju)

    • Asili Farm Africa Initiative - using a mobile app to support youth and women farmers with organic farming, crop diagnosis, and regenerative agriculture inputs 

  • Indigenous Women and Girls Initiative (Monica Yator)

    • Supporting farmer groups to scale up agroecology  

    • Establishing five agroecology living labs - soil is an entry point to bring this advocacy at national and community levels 

    • Attending COP30 

  • Soil Harvest International (Florence Reed) 

    • Programme in Honduras in partnership with the Honduran government agency (Insitute for Professional Development) 

      • Building new tree program, training to expand eco-agriculture with soil health as a big focus 

      • After building the program in Hondoras - will look for partners interested in imepelmenting this training program in other countries, particularly in Latin America and then beyond 

    • New social venture Mandela (Panama) to provide training to smallholder farmers 

    • Attending NY Climate Week 

  • Save Soil-Conscious Planet (Praveena Sridhar) 

  • Society for the Environment (David Hackett)

    • Chair of British Standards Institution - exploring standards for soil health and soil carbon (underpining a soil carbon market) and help inform measurement of soil health 

Action Points for Members, Partners and Collaborators

Below summarizes some of the key ways that partners can take action:

A big thank you to all of our partners who were able to attend the meeting, and to those who support our mission of scaling global soil health, in every way, shape and form.

Please reach out to coordination@coalitionforsoilhealth.org any time to learn how to engage further, or to follow up on any of the points listed above!

Hanna Linden (she/her) | CA4SH Secretariat https://www.hannanorth.com/
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