This presentation is for use by CA4SH members and stakeholders to introduce CA4SH, our ongoing activities, and key achievements.

On 27 May 2025, the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) and CA4SH co-hosted a webinar exploring the role of multi-stakeholder action in addressing financing, implementation, and knowledge barriers to scaling soil health solutions.

Healthy soil is the very foundation of our food systems and provides several vital ecosystem services, from carbon sequestration to improving food and nutrition security, to regulating the water cycle to hosting biodiversity. However, land degradation negatively impacts over 3.2 billion people globally. This webinar highlighted the critical role of healthy soil for ecosystem restoration, climate adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity, and food and nutrition security, as well as advancements in monitoring soil health using field assessments, data analytics, Earth Observation, and citizen science.

Key messages

• There is urgency to invest in landscape restoration and soil health.

• A continental, systematic monitoring framework can fill knowledge gaps on the impacts of the interventions including the link between management, productivity, diversity and soil health.

• We have the tools to monitor landscape health, combining systematic data collection, citizen science and remote sensing.

• Opportunities to collaborate across donors, projects, initiatives to scale investments and create robust, long-term datasets across diverse sites.

Learn more about the objectives and foci for the four thematic working groups in 2024.

This presentation is for use by CA4SH members and stakeholders to introduce CA4SH and communicate key messages around why we should scale soil health.

This presentation is for use by CA4SH members and stakeholders to introduce CA4SH, its objectives, scope and our ongoing activities.

This presentation was given in a side event from the British Society of Soil Science at the UNFCCC COP28 in Dubai.

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The European Mission Soil Week is an annual event aimed at promoting the Mission Soil, raising awareness about the importance of soil health, and driving action to protect and restore our soils.

The EU Mission Soil Week website has compiled a library of event materials from the November 2023 event including presentations, recordings, graphics and more.

Learn more about the connection between climate-smart agriculture and soil health in this presentation from a side event at the Africa Agribusiness and Science Week, Developing the Implementation Modalities for the Soil Initiative for Africa and AFSH Action Plan, from CA4SH and AICCRA.

In this presentation, the objectives, desired outcomes, pathways and benefits of adopting the Soil Resolution are broken down, enabling cross-cutting communication of the need for advancing soil health at the UNFCCC COP27 and beyond.

What has CA4SH been up to and where do we have our sights set next? Find out in the June 2022 update from the CA4SH Global Team!