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CA4SH co-hosted a side event at the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue: Using Evidence to Inform Policy
23 October 2024: The Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) co-hosted a virtual side event with CIFOR-ICRAF and the International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC) at the Norman A. Borlaug Dialogue of the World Food Prize (WFP). The event highlighted the critical importance of leveraging robust soil health monitoring methodologies to answer key knowledge gaps on the impact of land management and landscape restoration practices on soil health and to translate this information into policy.
CA4SH Science Webinar: Harnessing science & knowledge to scale monitoring and actionable data
CA4SH’s Webinar Series was held over three sessions in the lead-up to the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit to address key challenges currently constraining farmers to implement healthy soil practices. The first two sessions were held under the topics of bringing soil health into policy and financing healthy soil practices. This third session focused on the science and knowledge needed to generate actionable data for soil health monitoring and scaling up, informing and tracking soil health practices on the ground whilst addressing key barriers.
TIP & CA4SH Joint Programme: Indigenous Peoples approaches in managing soil health and ecosystem services
More than 25% of the World’s land surface lies under the care of Indigenous Peoples, but their voices are often left out of conversations on food systems and soil health. To fill knowledge gaps around the impact of Indigenous land management on soil health, and generate evidence to support an enabling environment for Indigenous Peoples to enjoy and benefit from their important roles as land managers, CA4SH is teaming up with The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty (TIP) on a joint programme. This will feed into an upcoming Global Gathering on Indigenous Peoples Food Systems planned next year and a medium-term plan for 2030 to follow.
Food systems coalitions and stakeholders convened at the UNFSS STM+2 in the name of agroecology, soil, food waste, and healthy diets
On 24 July, the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH), the Agroecology Coalition, the Coalition of Action on Healthy Diets from Sustainable FS for Children and All (HDSFS), and the Food is Never Waste Coalition convened an official side event at the UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS STM+2) to discuss the link between agroecology, soil health and nutrition for all.