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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


Panelists

Dr. David C. Johnson

Dr. David C. Johnson is a molecular biologist at New Mexico State University, and a collaborating scientist with Arizona State University, Texas A&M, Michigan State University, and the United State’s Department of 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

Precious Phiri is Coordinator at IGugu Trust and Regeneration International 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




Dr. Leigh Winowiecki is Soil and Land Health Research Lead at World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), Lead for the Coalition of Action For Soil Health (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, understanding drivers of degradation and quantifying the impacts of land management on soil organic carbon.


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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