Executive Summary
2024 was a big year for soil health and for the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH). We engaged global stakeholders in united advocacy to scale soil health through our priority areas of action, including science, policy, finance, youth engagement, and implementation on the ground. Scaling soil health can not happen in a vacuum; it requires the diverse perspectives, expertise, experience, and networks of the global community to come together. CA4SH is uniquely positioned to bring these voices together, offering a community and a meeting place for these partnerships to grow and bloom, and in 2024, we did just that in the name of healthy soil.
The inaugural CA4SH Annual Report, covered activities from CA4SH’s inception at the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 to the end of 2023. Centred on tracing our roots to see how far we’ve come as a global partnership, the report highlighted key events and milestones for the Coalition from just two short years of implementation. Now, the 2024 Report captures how we harnessed our foundations and partnerships to scale our presence and impact. In 2024, CA4SH grew from 159 to 258 members, and this number continues to rise as the World looks to soil health as a unifying solution to the global challenges of climate change, land degradation, biodiversity loss, and food and nutrition security. In 2025, we hope to increase our reach geographically, establish regional hubs, and strengthen the enabling environments of policy, finance, science, and practice to support soil stewards in scaling healthy soil practices on the ground, all over the World.
Highlights from 2024 include:
Launching the #Youth4Soil Initiative, including a mentorship program and youth working group.
Initiating a knowledge co-creation project to document lessons learned from the CA4SH global partnership.
Promoting 47 events related to soil health hosted by 70+ partners at the UNCCD COP16.
Meaningfully engaging with the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit proceedings and work plans.
Furthering equitable access to soil health data across Africa with diverse partnerships.
Contributing to global mechanisms for food systems and climate action, including the Riyadh Action Agenda and the Food Systems Call to Action.
Please reach out to communications@coalitionforsoilhealth.org for full resolution copies of the report!
