THE TARGETS OF THE COALITION INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING

  • Integrate soil health considerations in policy across the development, environment, and climate change domains, and along value chains.

  • Significantly increase the number of hectares of land under improved practices for soil health.

  • Expand on research in development into soil health practices, monitoring and evaluation, and financial tools and mechanisms.

  • Significantly increase investments in soil health, by a margin of 5-10 fold above current financing commitments.

 
 

CA4SH brings several new dimensions to efforts to enhance soil health across landscapes

 

  • Soil as a unifier

    A focus on soil as a unifier across the complex and inter-related global challenges of food and nutrition security, poverty reduction, climate change and biodiversity loss.

  • Private investment in soil

    Championing the business case for private investment in soil as a capital asset and alternative to the current limited number of commodity-focused investments (e.g., coffee, cocoa, palm oil).

  • Global Alignment

    Alignment of multiple public and private stakeholders to address the soil health investment gap and incentivize and reward farmers implementing actions to enhance soil health.

  • Systemic Approach

    Adopting a systemic approach to improving soil health aimed at simultaneously delivering co-benefits to production, the environment, climate change resilience and mitigation, and the economy.

  • Identification of barriers

    Alignment of grower, investor and financial markets and other key stakeholders along value chains to collectively address social, economic and technical barriers experienced by farmers in adopting healthy soil practices.

  • Evidence based outcomes

    Shift from contextualised actions to enhance soil health to evidence-based outcomes delivered by non-prescriptive agronomic management approaches.

The Five Pillars of CA4SH

  • | 1 |

    Accessible and inclusive
    multi-stakeholder actions to empower smallholder farmers.

  • | 2 |

    Transparent and accountable business solutions for public and private investments that promote equity.

  • | 3 |

    Evidence-based policy as an enabler for all, at all scales.

  • | 4 |

    Capacity building for on-ground implementation and monitoring.

  • | 5 |

    Implementation of robust soil health monitoring frameworks to track interventions over time.