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

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Title Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia
 
Creator Masikati, Patricia
Mwanza, Morton
Aynekulu, Ermias
Vagen, Tor-Gunnar
Winowiecki, Leigh Ann
 
Subject agriculture
climate-smart agriculture
soil organic carbon
soil
climate change
climate change mitigation
 
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. We interviewed key informants involved in the NDC process to understand the process for the developing the NDC targets and investigated reasons why policy makers did or did not include soil in these targets.
 
Date 2022-12
2023-01-03T17:00:48Z
2023-01-03T17:00:48Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Masikati P, Mwanza M, Aynekulu E, Vagen TG, Winowiecki LA. 2022. Including soil organic carbon into nationally determined contributions: Insights from Zambia. AICCRA Policy Brief. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126512
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format 8 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa