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14th December 2022 – Online event organized by Soil4Climate and the 4 per 1000 Climate-Soil Community of Practice


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Regenerative Grazing as a Climate and Livelihoods Solution: The Science, Practice and Policy

Grasslands cover between 20 and 40 percent of the world's land area and contain about one-third of the world's soil organic carbon (SOC). However, their potential to mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon and providing stable livelihoods for farmers has not yet been fully recognized by the general public. Practices such as regenerative grazing represent one way to unlock this potential. In this panel discussion, three representatives with scientific, practical, and policy backgrounds will share their insights.

Aim: To demonstrate the potential of regenerative grazing for climate and livelihoods.

Form: Webinar

When: (17:00 to 18:30 GMT)



Preliminary agenda:

TimeAgendaActor(s)
17:00 - 17:10Welcoming words and introductionSeth J. Itzkan
17:10 - 17:25ScienceDr. David Johnson
17:25 - 17:40PracticePrecious Phiri
17:40 - 17:55PolicyDr. Leigh Winowiecki
17:55 - 18:25Q&AEveryone
18:25 - 18:30Wrap up and closingSeth J. Itzkan

Who are the speakers?

Seth J. Itzkan (Soil4Climate) (Moderator)

Seth Itzkan is Co-founder and Codirector of Soil4Climate. He is an environmental futurist investigating innovative means of land management that offer hope for reversing global warming. He is a TEDx speaker on restoring grasslands and with planned grazing. He has consulted for The Boston Foundation, the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and the US Bureau of the Census. He is a graduate of Tufts University, College of Engineering and the Studies of the Future Program at University of Houston-Clear Lake. His private consultancy is Planet-TECH Associates.




Panelists

Dr. David C. Johnson Dr. David Johnson (New Mexico State University)

Dr. David C. Johnson is a molecular biologist at the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural Research at New Mexico State University, an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems at California and a collaborating scientist with Arizona State University, Chico, CATexas A&M, Michigan State University, and a collaborating scientist with the United State's State’s Department of Agriculture's Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. Dr. David Johnson and his wife, Hui-Chun Su Johnson, are inventors of the Johnson-Su Composting Bioreactor and developers of Biologically Enhanced Agricultural Management (BEAM). Dr. Johnson’s most recent publication on Adaptive Multi-paddock (AMP) Grazing is a benchmark in the peer-reviewed analysis of regenerative grazing to build soil carbon and other soil health indicators, such as fungal to bacterial ratios.

Precious Phiri (Regneration International)

Precious Phiri is a coordinator Coordinator at IGugu Trust and Regeneration International. She is also a former and was for 16 years Program Manager at the Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe, the birthplace of Holistic Management and the first Savory Institute hub. Precious has coordinated training in regenerative grazing and holistic decision making with agricultural and pastoral communities Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Kenya where she has helped guild and been witness to extensive improvements in livelihoods for these populations who are fully dependent on land-based resources and industries.

Dr. Leigh Winowiecki (ICRAF/C4ASH)




Dr. Leigh Ann Winowiecki is the Soil and Land Health Research Lead at World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Lead for the Coalition of Action For Soil and Land Health Global Research LeadHealth (CA4SH), and Lead for the Soil Health Resolution. CA4SH was co-host at the first ever UNFCCC COP Food Systems Pavilion, and the Soil Health Resolution introduces soil health into UNFCCC deliberations and asks national parties to the UNFCCC to include soil health in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. A soil scientist, her research focuses on scaling farmer-centered landscape restoration and understanding , understanding drivers of degradation and quantifying the impacts of land management on soil organic carbon dynamics. She is based in Nairobi, Kenya. Since 2009 she has co-developed and implemented the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) in over 40 countries to assess ecosystem health. She has published widely on soil organic carbon, ecosystem services and land degradation across sub-Saharan Africa and the tropics, including a coherent set of open access datasets. She co-leads the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) from the UNFSS, which aims to catalyze investments in soil health for human well-being and climate.


Host

Seth J. Itzkan

Seth J. Itzkan is Cofounder and Co-director of Soil4Climate Inc., an educational nonprofit advocating for soil restoration as a climate solution.

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