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Stakeholder groups and countries lack opportunities to meet, exchange, develop a mutual understanding, and assess complementarities in skills, capacities, and constraints. Such events are crucial to identifying collaboration and mutual support opportunities and developing partnerships to strengthen international and regional cooperation essential to solving the global crisis.

Lack of mutual awareness and understanding of interests, needs, activities, and constraints causes stakeholders to miss opportunities for creative thinking, collaboration, and mutual support, resulting in high transaction costs, increased investment risks, and low impact. The lack of regional and global exchange also means that countries and national organizations miss opportunities to forge alliances that allow the pooling and sharing of resources to overcome national constraints and make economies of scale.

Lack of awareness of the importance of soils in policy and among farmers.

Stakeholders and the public are insufficiently aware of the relevance of SH and soil carbon sequestration. For this reason, the topic does not get the attention and support it deserves.

Lack of organization and coordination of stakeholders, countries, and regions.

There is no proper link between various stakeholders and scientists and authorities, and policymakers in planning to improve soil management.

Lack of a convincing demand and result-oriented concepts that demonstrate the added value of such platforms and events for building partnerships for action and impact on the ground that attracts stakeholders and sponsors.

There is no business model for operating the interfaces and the organization of the annual regional events that clarify who benefits from what and who assumes what tasks and costs can be presented to decision-makers to persuade them to participate.

Organize stakeholders

Establish a regional level within the "4 per 1000" network (regional councils, focal points, stakeholder involvement) and convince further stakeholders to join the network.

Design regional platforms

Develop a concept for regional platforms and periodical meetings based on partners' expectations, particularly those of policymakers (launch a poll), which describes the justification, purpose, objectives, and operational plan of the platforms and meetings.

Develop compelling business models and plans for operating the interfaces, platforms, and annual regional events that clarify benefits, responsibilities, and cost-sharing to convince decision-makers to participate.

Mobilize support

Conduct public awareness campaigns on the importance of Soil Health (SH) and Soil Organic Carbon (SOC).

Lobby politicians and decision-makers to mobilize support (human, financial, and technical resources) for investments.

Strengthen networking with other climate-related initiatives.

Organize forums and events

Organize forums to foster collaboration between diverse stakeholder groups, which target knowledge exchange and practical outputs, including scientific seminars and conferences.

Facilitating respectful communication between all stakeholders, including researchers and knowledge users (policy and land management), will enable more evidence-based programs to be implemented by the farmers.

Efficient and effective involvement of stakeholders, countries, and regions.

Potential stakeholders must know about the "4 per 1000" Initiative, the opportunities that such interfaces and regional meetings offer to them, and how they can connect. Each member has to promote the Initiative when participating in projects and conferences.

Identifying and securing funding in projects to organize regional platforms and meetings. Motivate partners and members to host such an event (lower costs)

"4 per 1000" should develop synergies with other networks to tackle climate change. This will strengthen the knowledge and decrease costs.

Availability of a concept that demonstrates the added value of such regional interfaces and events for stakeholders and guides their implementation.

Provide a convincing business model for the operation of the interfaces and the organization of the annual regional events that highlight the added value available and clarify who benefits from what and who assumes what tasks and costs can be presented to decision-makers to persuade them to participate.

Ignorance of the importance of soils

Lack of definition and standards

Lack of agreed international standards and definitions to guide complex discussions and negotiations that deal with SH and soil carbon sequestration 

Cooperation is needed to develop low-cost, practical indicators to improve SH and soil carbon over time.

Lack of funds

Too little financial maneuvering room, especially in developing countries

Role of "4 per 1000" unclear

Lack of a detailed description of the role of the "4 per 1000 "initiative in the global system affecting soil carbon stocks (see A6) based on its mission.