April 12, 2015 by Stephanie Malyon
http://ciatblogs.cgiar.org/soils/ciat-at-global-soils-week-2015/
This year’s Global Soils Week entitled ‘Soil. The Substance of Transformation’ will highlight the importance of land and soil to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in this, the UN designated International Year of Soils. It will take place from 19 to 23 April 2015 in Berlin, Germany.
The conference, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), is a collective process and a knowledge platform for sustainable soil management and responsible land governance worldwide.
CIAT will participate throughout the week and will co-host a number of activities as described below:
April 20, 14:00 – 18:00
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Mitigation and adaptation to climate change through sustainable land management. Global and national perspectives on challenges and opportunities
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The session looks at the interplay of soils and climate and the challenges of governing soils and land in the context of climate change and degradation at multiple levels. Starting with an overview of the global governance of soils and climate, we then examine the related challenges of land management on the national level. Using the examples of Burundi and Malawi, we will address how to design and target actions.
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April 21,9:00 – 13:00
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Soil and land information: How to support decision making?
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In this dialogue session we will share and exchange ideas on recent developments on existing and emerging technologies that support land and soil monitoring, their functions and place of soil and land information in enhancing food system resilience.
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April 219:00-13:00
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Grounding Global Soil and Land Initiatives: working on trickling‐down
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At the session, we will discuss successful examples of trickling‐down by looking at the recently established regional soil partnerships, the implementation of sustainable land management technologies in China, national multi‐stakeholder policy assessments and a soil governance audit in Brazil. Finally, this session will be the space where the IASS and its partners will present a proposal toestablish national soil monitoring and accountability initiatives for the implementation of the SDGs.
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April 22,9:00 – 13:00
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Soil fertility management – towards a joint paradigm
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This session will feature a dialogue on sustainable soil management taking stock of current agronomic and policy research, and building on insights from a GSW 2013 session. Then we will focus on soil issues in sub-Saharan Africa addressing inherent soil fertility constraints in light of existing institutional frameworks, incentive structures and will derive policy processes needed for transformation towards sustainable development.
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April 23
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Open-Space Session – Giving living soil a voice: approaches and tools
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This session addresses approaches and tools help trigger better dialogue between all soil interests from farmers to policy. The key role of sustainable soil farming for living fertile soil preservation can hardly be separated from any effective soil communication.
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April 20-23, Lunch Break Forum
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Down to earth data: the role of quality soil and contextual data in landscape planning for ecosystem services
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Good quality soil information that reflects the reality on the ground is vital for planning and decision making. Using engaging examples from the field in Africa, we show the results of ecosystem service assessments with soil data of varying quality to clearly illustrate how coarse data presents a completely different picture of what is happening on the ground in comparison to finer scale “down to earth” data.
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