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CA4SH Partners Hosted Record Engagement at UNCCD COP16
The Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) is rooted in the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Since our official launch in 2021, CA4SH has amassed a membership of over 200 multistakeholder organizations and collaborated with countless partners.
This year, the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNCCD was focused on a people-centred approach to accelerating action on land and drought resilience, themed Our Land. Our Future.
Since healthy soil is essential to land and drought resilience, and provides co-benefits that link with all 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the CA4SH network came together for a record engagement at COP16 to advocate for scaling global soil health.
Newly launched Restore4More project seeks to contribute knowledge to guide and scale rangeland restoration in East Africa
“Water and transhumance are often overlooked in restoration research projects. I am very glad that Restore4More will focus on these aspects”, said Peter Minang, Director for Africa at the Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF). Minang made the welcome remarks at the launch meeting of the Restore4More project held in the CIFOR-ICRAF campus in Nairobi on 15-17 April 2024.
Read the full story from Aida Bargués Tobella for SLU
Ramat: Co-created Community Solutions for the Mt Marsabit landscape
In December, Nature and People as One (NaPO) held a workshop in Karare, an area bordering the Mt Marsabit National Reserve, that brought together 59 community voices representing 39 villages from Parkishon, Kamboe, Loglogo and Karare (important rangelands surrounding the Mt Marsabit Forest). The goal was to assess progress with implementing the Ramat model, celebrate its successes, and assess the challenges.
Story and photos by Adrian Leitoro, Co-Founder of NaPO
CA4SH at the 2023 World Water Week: Innovative solutions for promoting healthy rangelands under a changing climate
Rangelands cover about half of the Earth’s land surface, store between 10 and 30% of terrestrial carbon, and support over 2 billion people, yet they are under-recognized and under-valued and have been largely ignored in sustainable development agendas and climate negotiations.
On 21 August 2023, CA4SH joined CIFOR-ICRAF, Focali, IGAD, SIWI, SLU, University of Nairobi, and WWF at the 2023 World Water Week organized by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) in a virtual session to discuss water-smart rangeland restoration.