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Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya

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Title Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya
 
Creator Aynekulu, Ermias
Vagen, Tor-Gunnar
Winowiecki, Leigh Ann
 
Subject agriculture
climate-smart agriculture
climate information services
climate change
soil
 
Description Healthy soils are the foundation of sustainable and regenerative food systems and provide several vital ecosystem services. Sequestering carbon in agricultural soils, for example, can have mutual benefits for climate change mitigation and adaptation, food and nutrition security, biodiversity, and water resilience. Despite these benefits, there are few policies that incentivize farmers to invest in maintaining and improving soil health.
This policy brief highlights opportunities for the inclusion of soil health and soil organic carbon (SOC) into the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) as a key step for governments to support farmers in investing in their soil. This activity builds on recent assessments including a paper that extensively reviewed the first-round of 184 NDCs concluding that only 28 countries referred to SOC, peatlands or wetlands (1). This review and the subsequent interviews with experts (n=8) indicated the importance of understanding the impact of land management on SOC storage and dynamics (1). As a follow-up, Rose et al (2) focused on the updated NDCs and found that the number of countries that included SOC in their updated NDC increased compared to the first-round NDC process (2). This review also highlighted that 19 countries highlighted the need for financing for SOC and related measures (2).
 
Date 2022-12
2023-01-03T19:22:03Z
2023-01-03T19:22:03Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Aynekulu E, Vagen TG, Winowiecki LA. 2022. Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Kenya. AICCRA Policy Brief. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126513
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format 8 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa