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Workshop on Monitoring climate benefits of sustainable land management with a focus on Soil Organic Carbon - 27-29 April 2021

Topic and aim of the CoP-event

Building on the success of the last event in October 2020, the Climate-Soil Community of Practice (CoP) and the 4 per 1000 Initiative are pleased to announce their next event. The CoP members are professionals in the field of international cooperation and development as well as practitioners looking to improve their technical skills regarding the Climate-Soil-Nexus. The CoP has selected the topic "Monitoring climate benefits of sustainable land management, with a focus on Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)" with special attention to different methodological approaches including remote sensing, farmer-led monitoring in the field, monitoring and upscaling of soil organic carbon with a stratification approach, as well as institutional challenges in applying them.

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• How does monitoring work on the ground?
•  What are strengths and weaknesses of different monitoring approaches?
• How can monitoring be efficiently organized at the national and local level?
• How can responsible organizations and research institutions cooperate involving farmers/land users?
• How to bridge the gap between anecdotal and experience-based knowledge from farmers and scientifically robust data (incl. data collection and processing)?

Proposed structure of the event

The event will take place on April 27 to 29 and will be structured as a three-day workshop composed of three moderated 2-hour sessions. While we hope that you can attend the entire workshop, participants can pick and choose which session they want to attend.

Importantly, we want to move away from traditional formats of presentations, followed by short questions and answer sessions. Instead, we are proposing interactive sessions, composed of one-hour presentations, that will facilitate knowledge exchange between participants and presenters. Therefore, the moderated sessions will be conceived as a case study presentation followed by an interactive discussion and knowledge exchange or may include breakout groups on specific questions (to be determined by the presenter of each session).

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Tuesday, April 27 - 13:00-15:15 hrs CET

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1. Workshop presentation on Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (1 hour, led by Leigh Ann Winowiecki, World Agroforestry Centre ICRAF)
2. Final wrap-up of the workshop by 4p1000/GIZ (15 minutes)
3. Q&A on next steps for the CoP (15 minutes)

Feedback request

We want this CoP to be lively and innovative. Therefore, we would like to ask you for your feedback on the workshop concept and format. Please consider yourself co-organizers discussing this as a virtual group. 

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