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From Healthy Soil to Healthy Diets: Closing the Finance Gap at COP31
On the opening day of COP31, Food, Agriculture and Health Day, the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) and partners convened a Solution and Delivery Event under the Global Climate Action programme: From Healthy Soil to Healthy Diets: Closing the Finance Gap.
The discussion advanced Healthy Soil 4 Healthy Diets (HS4HD), one of the Plans to Accelerate Solutions (PAS) under Axis 3: Transforming Agriculture and Food Systems of the Global Climate Action Agenda (GCAA). HS4HD sits alongside partner PAS Resilient Agriculture Investment for Net-Zero Land Degradation (RAIZ), Regenerative School Meals, and TERRA – Together for the Expansion of Resilient and Restorative Agroecology and Agroforestry.
Op-Ed | Soil health, global goals, and coordinating efforts: Reflections on five years of the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health
Five years ago, the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) was launched at the UN Food Systems Summit to advocate for healthy soil as central to food system transformation.
At that time, healthy soil was not formally recognized as a climate solution, despite it being the largest terrestrial carbon sink and having a central role in upholding food and nutrition security, combating land degradation and drought, hosting biodiverse ecosystems, and filtering and storing water, among a myriad of other co-benefits.
But momentum was growing.
Read the full op-ed by CA4SH co-Lead Dr Leigh Winowiecki