Technologies for soil carbon enhancement in Africa

Soil carbon storage plays a key role in climate change mitigation. However, Uganda and other African countries are fast depleting their soil carbon due to accelerated agricultural development, deforestation and soil degradation. With the growing call for urgent action on climate change, carbon sequestration is critical to achieving climate targets. African countries would greatly benefit from soil carbon enhancing technologies to sequester carbon at a much faster rate once is given much attention and assistance from developed countries. That is why as a member of 4per1000 have joined EU Green Week organized by the European Commission’s Directorate- General for Environment which is not only giving an annual opportunity to debate and discuss European environmental policy BUT Africa and Uganda inclusive. This key event in the environment policy calendar which attracts European and global policy makers, leading environmentalists, stakeholders and other interested parties from across Europe and around the globe to share how together we can restore and maintain soil health locally and globally so that we  leave NO ONE behind.

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Local knowledge and healthier food

Local knowledge is inextricably linked to soil and land management and rural development. For millennia, local knowledge provided rural communities with knowledge to manage their soils and controlling soil erosion getting diverse, healthier, fresher, and more nutritious foods culturally appropriate to their population, while creating a sustainable source of food and income to improve the quality of life and economic well being. Along the road, local knowledge has been neglected or not prioritized in the controlling soil erosion which is part of Soil and land management.

Local and scientific knowledge are essential to control soil erosion

Controlling soil erosion need various interventions which include scientific and local knowledge. For millennia, Local knowledge has been linked to soil erosion, land management and rural development.

The economics of soil erosion control and restoration of eroded land

Stop soil erosion: Save Our Future by applying local knowledge as one of the means.

Soil erosion is one of the most diffused soil degradation problems around the world which can be addressed with a relatively low initial investment, when compared to the multiple benefits gained after the intervention. Stopping soil erosion cannot be achieved by scientific method application only but also applying local knowledge as well as using several interventions according to Global Soil Partnership and FAO if we are to achieve the most pressing environmental issues of our time to improve agricultural productivity, reduce degrading crucial ecosystem functions, amplifying hydrogeology to combat soil erosion which is part of  land management in order prevent and control the increased food insecurity and risks faced by ecosystem services.

Where Food Begins

Healthy soils are critical for global food production, but we are not paying enough attention to this important "silent ally,"

Healthy soils not only are the foundation for food, fuel, fibre and medical products, but also are essential to our ecosystems, playing a key role in the carbon cycle, storing and filtering water, and improving resilience to floods and droughts 

The UN  declared 2015 the International Year of Soil which  kicked  off in Rome, New York and Santiago de Chile in 2015 now more than five years in an effort to raise awareness and promote more sustainable use of this critical resource.