Brief Description
Scaling of CSA is needed to achieve agricultural transformation in a climate change context. Successful cases of south-south collaboration have demonstrated its importance to promote and facilitate action at different scales. Dialogue between peers of different countries and regions to share common challenges have the potential to unlock and enable collective action for tackling climate change in the agricultural sector.
We want to encourage researchers and practitioners to share their knowledge and capacities on soil and biomass carbon sequestration options, which might be useful in other contexts, countries and regions. With these topics, we aim to cover options that promote synergies between adaptation and mitigation.
We will support south-south exchanges on innovative soil and biomass carbon sequestration options in agriculture with potential to scale. Five initiatives were selected to pitch their ideas in this side-event and one will be awarded to fund a south-south exchange. The prize is up to US $15.000. Go for it!
| Ideas | Applicant | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perennial grain crops in the rotation for enhancing soil carbon sequestration and sustaining crop production | Sikiru Yusuf Alasinrin | University of Ilorin, Nigeria/ PhD student at Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria. | Nigeria |
| Business solutions for soil restoration | Duncan Gromko | KOFAR Kenya Limited | Kenya |
| Increasing crop productivity and soil carbon storage on sandy soils: No soil left behind! | Ngonidzashe Chirinda | CIAT | Colombia |
| Carbon Sequestering and Sustainability of Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia by resource conservation technologies of Climate Smart Agriculture | Adnan Zahid | Institute of Agricultural Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore | Pakistan |
| Improving Monitoring of Soil and Biomass Carbon Sequestration using Microwave Remote Sensing to enhance Climate Smart Agriculture | Stella Ndirangu | Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise Ltd (ACRE Africa) | Kenya |
Session Objectives
- To facilitate dialogue between researchers and practitioners on knowledge and capacities on soil carbon and carbon sequestration.
- To incentivize further collaboration through south-south exchange leading to wider adoption of low emissions agricultural options.
Chairperson/Moderator
Rosa Román (CIFOR)
Rapporteur
Lini Wollenberg (CCAFS)
