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The Climate - Soil Community of Practice
This Climate-Soil Community of Practice (CoP) has jointly been launched by the “4 per 1000” Initiative on soils for food security and climate and the GIZ Sector Project Soil Protection, Combating Desertification, Sustainable Land Management (BMZ) in 2020.
The core concern of this Climate-Soil Community of Practice is to raise the awareness of the climate change mitigation and adaptation potential of sustainable land management and SOC enriching practices and identify concrete pathways for improvement and implementation. Its aim is to disseminate information on successful projects in the area of SLM and carbon sequestration, highlight good practices for overcoming adoption barriers and strengthen the case for sustainable land management as a key to effective climate action.
In addition, we advocate for increased and tangible consideration of SOC in relevant interventions and policy processes, such as the National Determined Contributions (NDCs).
The Climate-Soil Community of Practice (CoP) provides a platform for collaboration and peer-learning amongst its members and offers an open space for discussion and creative thinking.
Please register here: Registration for the Climate-Soil Community of Practice
Past event - April 16th - 08:00 am (UTC)
2024-04-16 Regreening the Sahel – Restoring land and livelihoods
Land degradation is a serious threat in Africa, particularly in the Sahel where the combination of climate change, increased population, loss of tree and vegetative cover, and intensified land use is undermining the natural resource base on which rural communities depend. Solutions for a restoration of the dry lands are key to reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss and address the effects of climate change. It is about regaining lost ecological functions by enabling communities to improve the productivity, resilience and sustainability of their livelihoods by adapting some combination and sequence of innovative regreening practices that regenerates the land and restore the landscapes.
In this session of the Community of Practice we invited Groundswell International and BOTH Ends (tbc) to report about their work in the Sahel. They will explain their methods and practices on the lands and in the communities, talk about successes and challenges. There will be space for questions, answers and discussions.
Roadmap for 2023
- Coming March / April: Climate financing and carbon farming, with special focus on a project example from Kenya and financing possibilities for Agroforestry and Biochar practices
Events that took place in 2022
Input from Members
We always welcome input from our members. If you would like to present your project or topic at one of our events or organize an event yourself as part of the Community of Practice - please get in touch with Julia.Klemme@4p1000.org or Frederik.Lindenmann@giz.de.
If you would like to share information, websites or papers with the community, we would also be happy to hear from you. You can simply upload them directly yourself (please use the edit button on one of the already existing thematic pages here) or send them to Julia.Klemme@4p1000.org or Frederik.Lindenmann@giz.de
You can find already shared information of our members here: Knowledge Products
“Healthy Soils for a Healthy Planet” – second virtual Fair of the “4 per 1000” Initiative
The international “4 per 1000” Initiative organized its second virtual fair in the framework of the European Green Week 2022, with the sponsorship of the GIZ project “Sector Project on Soil Protection, Combating Desertification, Sustainable Land Management“, which has taken over the patronage of the event from this yearAll the partners, members and friends of the Initiative had the opportunity to present themselves and their work permanently on the collaborative platform of the international “4 per 1000” Initiative.
Have a look at the fair!