August 25 to September 1, 2023
“4 per 1000” initiative - Research - Policy review for the 4‰ Initiative - Global soil governance
March 2023
Emerging new global soil governance structure in agrifood systems: Taking the “4 per 1,000” initiative as an example - Li Li, Xiaojing Song, Yang Liu, Li Chai
Food systems emit 21%-37% of the global greenhouse gases (GHGs). Soil degradation, accelerated by global warming, poses a threat to over 40% of the land surfaces, threatening food security. Keeping soils alive and healthy could not only play a part in food security, but also in sequestrating GHGs for climate mitigation. In 2015, the “4 per 1,000” Initiative was launched in Paris COP21, indicating that a “4‰” annual growth rate of the soil organic carbon sequestration could hold the temperature increase within 1.5°C−2°C. However, major GHG emitting countries haven't signed the 4‰ Initiative at national level. Political willingness need to be encouraged though institutional innovations in the global soil governance (GSG). This article conducts a comprehensive policy review for the 4‰ Initiative and attempts to develop the concept of global soil governance from an aspect of New Common But Differentiated Responsibility. The SOC sink targets reveal that countries like China, India, the UK, the US, and France take more pains than those like Australia, Russia, and Canada. A new “soil carbon rich” and “soil carbon poor” divide is perceived, which needs to be taken into the GSG as a restructuring motivation for setting a more practical and integrated framework. In that sense, some developed countries face similar challenges as the developing countries do, but could contribute more in finance and technology. Bandwagon of applying sustainable agricultural land management (SALM) methodology in carbon markets implies that soil-climate co-benefits get greater practical momentum with quantified trading platforms, which may stimulate potentiality if embodied in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1104252/full
“4 per 1000” initiative - Compost - Farming practices - Australia
June 12, 2023
The case for compost: why recycling food waste is so much better than sending it to landfill
“4 per 1000” initiative - SOC sequestration - Conservation tillage practices - Green manure - Biochar - Study - South Korea
December 2022
Feasibility of 4 per 1000 initiative analyzed from national scale assessment of SOC sequestration by conservation tillage practices - Hyun, jun Ge, Yoo, Gayoung
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AGUFMGC45E1005H/abstract
Initiative « 4 pour 1000 » - Séminaire Afrique de l’Ouest - Fondation FARM - Institutionnel
30 août 2023
Comment améliorer la santé des sols en Afrique de l’Ouest ?
Les agriculteurs d’Afrique de l’Ouest sont confrontés à une perte de fertilité chronique des sols agricoles. Leur vulnérabilité s’accentue dans un contexte toujours plus complexe : demande croissante en produits agricoles, instabilité géopolitique, changement climatique… Quelles solutions concrètes peuvent être diffusées pour améliorer la résilience des agricultures forestières ouest-africaines ? La Fondation FARM s’est rendue en Côte d’Ivoire à la rencontre de plusieurs acteurs de terrain.
https://fondation-farm.org/sante-sols-afrique-cote-ivoire/
Initiative « 4 pour 1000 » - Annonce séminaire
30 mai 2023
Stocker du carbone dans les sols pour freiner le changement climatique, une bonne idée ? séminaire à Paris
Agriculture and Agroforestry - Soil - Food Security - Forest - Carbon
Agriculture - Sols - Terres - Santé des sols
23 août 2023
Nos terres agricoles mal en point sont-elles récupérables?
Agriculture - Sols - Racines - Bonnes pratiques - Plantes de couverture
30 août 2023
Mettre des racines dans le sol
« Nos rendements sont assez stables bon an mal an et ils cherchent à tirer vers le haut » - Marie-Claude De Martin, Ferme Ajiro
https://www.lebulletin.com/cultures/sols-dexception/mettre-des-racines-dans-le-sol-129144
Agriculture - Sols - Matière organique - Paille - IRD
30 août 2023
La paille, meilleur atout pour augmenter la matière organique des sols
Agriculture - Riz - Tomates - Oignons - Prix - Climat - Exportations - Insécurité alimentaire
25 août 2023
Riz, tomates, oignons… En Inde, les prix explosent suite aux aléas climatiques.
Pour enrayer l’envolée des prix de l’alimentation, entraînée par l’inflation et les impacts du changement climatique, le gouvernement indien annonce depuis quelques semaines une série de mesures visant à sécuriser le marché intérieur. Parmi elles, l’interdiction de l’exportation du riz non-basmati concentre les inquiétudes, alors que l’insécurité alimentaire mondiale persiste à un niveau important.
Agriculture - Agriculteurs - Crédit carbone - Soil Capital
30 août 2023
Crédits carbone : 3,2 millions d'euros versés à 400 agriculteurs pour la régénération des sols
Soil Capital a versé cet été 3 200 000 millions d'euros à 400 agriculteurs. Une somme qui correspond à la « rémunération carbone » pour des pratiques agricoles vertueuses, qui améliorent la santé du sol et la séquestration du carbone. L’association poursuit son programme pour une agriculture « régénérative et rémunératrice ». Elle compte à ce jour 1000 agriculteurs engagés dans la démarche.
Agriculture - Agroecology - Agroecology alliance - Food production systems - Food security - AFSA - Congo Basin
August 28, 2023
Agroecology alliance calls for more food at less cost to nature in Congo Basin
* The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) will make the case for reorienting food production systems and agricultural policy at a meeting in Kinshasa from Aug. 29-31.
* Food security across the Congo Basin is threatened by impoverished soils, climate change, and displacement due to armed conflict, forum attendees say.
* Governments in the region back improved seeds and synthetic fertilizer for small-scale farmers as well as large-scale agriculture projects to boost yields and revenue.
* AFSA argues these strategies cause more harm than good to both farmers and forests, and calls for a turn to agroecological methods instead.
Agriculture - Climate change - China’s cropland
August 24, 2023
Q&A: How is climate change affecting China’s cropland?
https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-is-climate-change-affecting-chinas-cropland/
Breeding - Cattle farming - Cows - Climate change - Heat stress - Study
August 24, 2023
Cattle farming expansion and unchecked climate change would expose more than 1 billion cows to heat stress, study finds
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-cattle-farming-expansion-unchecked-climate.html
Policies and Governments
Canada - Gouvernement - Sénatrice Paula Simons - Santé des sols - Sols des prairies
31 août 2023
La sénatrice Paula Simons veut que le gouvernement protège les sols des Prairies
Canada - Ottawa - Agriculture - Sols - Laboratoires vivants - Investissements
24 août 2023
Changements climatiques : 4,5 M$ investis dans les Laboratoires vivants de l’Î.-P.-É.
Des chercheurs et des agriculteurs de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard qui participent au programme Laboratoires vivants bénéficieront d’un financement de 4,5 millions de dollars sur les cinq prochaines années. Cet argent devrait participer à développer des pratiques qui aident les agriculteurs à s'adapter aux changements climatiques.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2005835/laboratoires-vivants-fermes-climat-ipe-living-labs
EU Commission - Green Deal commissioner - Šefčovič - Frans Timmermans
August 22, 2023
Šefčovič replaces Timmermans as EU Green Deal chief
The Green Deal commissioner was chosen to lead a left-wing alliance in the Netherlands’ November election.
https://www.politico.eu/article/frans-timmermans-quit-eu-climate-chief-return-dutch-politics/
Research - Study
“4 per 1,000” initiative - Research - Policy review for the 4‰ Initiative - Global soil governance
March 2023
Emerging new global soil governance structure in agrifood systems: Taking the “4 per 1,000” initiative as an example - Li Li, Xiaojing Song, Yang Liu, Li Chai
Food systems emit 21%-37% of the global greenhouse gases (GHGs). Soil degradation, accelerated by global warming, poses a threat to over 40% of the land surfaces, threatening food security. Keeping soils alive and healthy could not only play a part in food security, but also in sequestrating GHGs for climate mitigation. In 2015, the “4 per 1,000” Initiative was launched in Paris COP21, indicating that a “4‰” annual growth rate of the soil organic carbon sequestration could hold the temperature increase within 1.5°C−2°C. However, major GHG emitting countries haven't signed the 4‰ Initiative at national level. Political willingness need to be encouraged though institutional innovations in the global soil governance (GSG). This article conducts a comprehensive policy review for the 4‰ Initiative and attempts to develop the concept of global soil governance from an aspect of New Common But Differentiated Responsibility. The SOC sink targets reveal that countries like China, India, the UK, the US, and France take more pains than those like Australia, Russia, and Canada. A new “soil carbon rich” and “soil carbon poor” divide is perceived, which needs to be taken into the GSG as a restructuring motivation for setting a more practical and integrated framework. In that sense, some developed countries face similar challenges as the developing countries do, but could contribute more in finance and technology. Bandwagon of applying sustainable agricultural land management (SALM) methodology in carbon markets implies that soil-climate co-benefits get greater practical momentum with quantified trading platforms, which may stimulate potentiality if embodied in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1104252/full
“4 per 1,000” initiative - SOC sequestration - Conservation tillage practices - Green manure - Biochar - Study - South Korea
December 2022
Feasibility of 4 per 1000 initiative analyzed from national scale assessment of SOC sequestration by conservation tillage practices - Hyun, jun Ge, Yoo, Gayoung
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AGUFMGC45E1005H/abstract
Climate change - Pathways to 1.5C - Carbon capture - Carbon storage
August 23, 2023
Adjusting 1.5 degree C climate change mitigation pathways in light of adverse new information -
Ajay Gambhir, Shivika Mittal, Robin D. Lamboll, Neil Grant, Dan Bernie, Laila Gohar, Adam Hawkes, Alexandre Köberle, Joeri Rogelj & Jason A. Lowe
Understanding how 1.5 °C pathways could adjust in light of new adverse information, such as a reduced 1.5 °C carbon budget, or slower-than-expected low-carbon technology deployment, is critical for planning resilient pathways. We use an integrated assessment model to explore potential pathway adjustments starting in 2025 and 2030, following the arrival of new information. The 1.5 °C target remains achievable in the model, in light of some adverse information, provided a broad portfolio of technologies and measures is still available. If multiple pieces of adverse information arrive simultaneously, average annual emissions reductions near 3 GtCO2/yr for the first five years following the pathway adjustment, compared to 2 GtCO2/yr in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic began. Moreover, in these scenarios of multiple simultaneous adverse information, by 2050 mitigation costs are 4-5 times as high as a no adverse information scenario, highlighting the criticality of developing a wide range of mitigation options, including energy demand reduction options.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40673-4
