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CA4SH at the 2024 World Food Forum
14-18 October 2024: The World Food Forum (WFF) was held at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) headquarters in Rome, Italy. It served as a powerful platform, bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders to leverage the power of intergenerational collaborations, partnerships, and action across policy, science, innovation, culture, and investment.
CA4SH members joined a series of youth-led dialogues, workshops, and networking events to highlight the transformative potential of soil health as the foundation of sustainable, resilient food systems. With over 200 members - including farmer organizations, youth, policymakers, scientists, and NGOs - the Coalition is committed to translating science into action, fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration, and amplifying the vital role of youth in global soil health initiatives.
A New Brief and Case Study Details the Carbon Gaps Network Project in Argentina
Ramon Garcia is a farmer from near Marcos Juárez city, southeast Córdoba Province, Argentina, and a member of the Carbon Gap Network or Red de Brechas de Carbono (RBC) project from the Argentine No-Till Farmers Association (Aapresid).
Learn more about Ramon’s experience with the RBC project, and the approach as a whole in a new brief co-produced by CA4SH and Aapresid to highlight approaches to scale global soil health.
Scaling Farmer-Centered Solutions in Africa from the Soil Up
March 14th, Accelerating Nature-based Solutions Conference: In a call to address the pressing issue of soil degradation and its detrimental effects on food systems and livelihoods, a recent event co-hosted by the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) and CIFOR-ICRAF underscored the urgency for multi-stakeholder action to promote healthy soil ecosystems across Africa. The gathering, which brought together diverse stakeholders from farming communities, science, policy, development, conservation, and the private sector, emphasized the critical role of soil in sustainable and regenerative food systems.
Farmers in East Africa are prioritising climate action in food systems
Scaling innovative solutions, such as regenerative agriculture, has a critical role in facilitating the necessary shift required to address climate change and its effects on fragile food systems.
Farmers in East Africa are making the choice of adopting this approach of agriculture, in combination with new technologies and organic inputs to improve crop yields and replenish soils. This renewed understanding of the interplay between soil health and healthy yields is enabling the transition to sustainable agricultural practices and policy in the region.
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
Meet Our Members: Sustainable Environment, Ecotourism, and Agricultural Development Organisation (SEEADO)
SEEADO is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profit organization that works to promote a sustainable environment and agriculture, and mainstream ecotourism into conservation for the benefit of people and biodiversity.
Cycle to Farms: The Final Leg of Our Journey Cycling in Tanzania
Aisha and Lukas have been cycling from farm to farm, documenting regenerative farming practices on the ground to realize their goal of publishing a book and documentary to raise awareness. Read their recent blog about their time in Tanzania.
From hunger to hope: Kenya’s transition towards sustainable food production
By Harry Johnstone
“Justus Ndemwa is sitting on an empty plastic water canister. He looks away. His voice is soft and faltering. “For five years the rains have failed,” he says.
Some days, the 72-year-old, who suffers from anaemia, eats only rice or beans. He is not alone. Now because of the high cost of food and the impacts of climate change, millions of Kenyans face hunger every day. As the situation persists, something, surely, has to change.”
Read the full article from The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).
The XXXI Aapresid Congress reported a record turnout
Setting record attendance for the event, the Argentine No-till Farmers Association (Aapresid) XXXI edition of its annual “C, a life element” Congress gathered renowned national and international mentors and professionals from the farming sector. Led by companies and agricultural producers, more than 7800 people from all around Argentina, and the World showed their enthusiasm for healthy soil and food systems.
SNV and CA4SH call for sustainable farming practices at UNFSS Stocktaking Moment+2
Emphasizing the critical need for sustainable farming practices, the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) and SNV held a side event on the second day of the UN Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment titled “From the soil up: How can agroecology and regenerative agriculture transform food systems.”