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Vision 2050

Worldwide healthy and carbon-rich soils to combat climate change and end hunger.


Mission

Provide a supportive framework and action plan to conceptualize, implement, promote and follow up actions, on Soil Health (SH) and Soil Organic Carbon (SOC), through an enhanced collaboration between stakeholders of the "Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)" sector, in line with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).


Ambition

  • Accelerate Climate Change MITIGATION
  • Intensify the ADAPTATION of Agriculture to Climate Change
  • Improve FOOD SECURITY

The ambition of the "4 per 1000" Initiative is to encourage land users to move towards a diversified, productive, resource-efficient and highly resilient agriculture and forestry based on appropriate management of natural resources, in particular land, soils and water, strengthening farming activities and the global economy ensuring sustainable development.

This Initiative invites all stakeholders (producers, scientific community, private sector, non governmental organizations (NGOs), regional and local authorities, countries, international organizations, development banks, foundations, etc.) to promote and implement science-based practical actions to maintain and manage soils to be healthy and living, and thus fertile, and be a carbon sink and not a source, based on successful experiences and support of science and rational methodology.

The Initiative wants to involve stakeholders to contribute to develop a global monitoring platform to better quantify soil carbon stocks and establish adequate public policies encouraging farmers and foresters to adopt agricultural practices that conserve and increase soil carbon stocks.


Guiding Principles

We believe in:

  • SH is at the center of actions
  • Farmers/foresters are key actors at the center and managers of their farming/forestry systems.
  • A territorial approach that respects land rights and holders, adjusts to local conditions, follows the subsidiarity principle and strengthens local ownership of action.
  • A science-based and result-oriented approach, with the help of an international multidisciplinary "4 per 1000" Initiative Scientific and Technical Committee (STC).
  • A "4 per 1000" Initiative Executive Secretariat that facilitates and organizes, and Members and Partners who voluntary act and implement.
  • A focus on strengthening inter-institutional collaboration.
  • A multi-stakeholder approach and a public-private cooperation that promote mutual support between actors, open access and open data and optimal allocation of resources including to farmers/foresters.
  • The ability to learn, agility, willingness and team spirit at all levels provide the flexibility and drive needed to meet the complex challenges ahead.
  • Gender equality and the empowerment of women and young people in agriculture.
  • The inclusion of ethnic minority groups.

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