Presentation given at EESC in Brussels as part of the Climate-Smart Agriculture sessions of the WBCSD Low Carbon Technology Platform initiative. 10 June 2017
4p1000 soils for food security and climate CGIAR LCTPii7
1. Alain Vidal
CGIAR System OrganizationPhoto: G. Smith, CIAT
Soils for Food Security and Climate
The 4p1000 initiative
2. CGIAR is committed to advance agri-food science
and innovation to enable poor people, especially
women, to better nourish their families, and improve
productivity and resilience
5. We have disconnected our food
system from the soil and we now
need to reconnect it!
Emmanuel Faber
DG of Danone
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6. โข Mitigate climate change
o Attenuate GHG emissions. Organic Carbon can be
stored in soils for decades to millenia
o Low cost negative emission technology
โข Adapt to climate change
o Soil organic matter increases soil water capacity
o Decreases sensitivity to erosion
โข Contribute to food security & restore
degraded soils
o Major role of soil organic matter in soil fertility
o Yields stability
o 30% world soils severely degraded (FAO - 2015)
Why storing Carbon in soils?
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7. Why 4p1000 or 0.4%?
8.9 4.3
0.9
2.9
2.6
3.4
ATMOSPHERE: 830 Gt C
8.98.9 0
0
2.9
2.6
0
TOP SOIL: 860 Gt C
0
Gt C (billion metric tons of carbon)
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9. Limits and feasability: Practices
ยฉ FAO
ยฉ R.Cardinael
ยฉagriculturedeconservation
Rangeland
management
Conservation agriculture
Agroforestry
Water management
Integrated soil fertility
management
Organic fertilizerCover crops
Soil organic
carbon
CO 2
Annual 4p1000 increase locally attainable?
Great variability of C storage rates (climate, soil..)
Limits : biomass availability, nutrients, water, soilโฆ
10. A French initiative in the Lima Paris Action
Agreement launched at COP21
4p1000
โSoils for food security and climateโ
โข International research program on soil carbon
sequestration
โข Multi-stakeholder platform to facilitate partnerships,
influence policy and improve supply chains
โข Expertise on project monitoring and evaluation
โข Digital resource center on carbon in soils
12. Total countries including 4 per 1000, GRA, FACCE JPI, CCAFS & CIRCASA
Our vision: Co-ordinated research on agricultural
soil carbon sequestration spanning at least 82 countries and 85% of global research
13. How can private sector invest in
4p1000?
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โข A collaboration platform with tools,
references, experience sharing and more
โข Open to investors, practicioners, farmers,
decision maker
โข Possible staff secondment
14. Policy Recommendations
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โข Maintream soil carbon conservation /
sequestration as a best climate-smart /
agroecological practice
โข Promote countriesโ readiness through
projects that combine mitigation and
adaptation (eg through Green Climate
Fund)
โข Recognize our food systemโs need to
follow the โcarbon lawโ set by the Paris
agreement
15. A global carbon law and roadmap to make Paris goals a reality
OUTLINE:
Intro to CGIAR / map / SLOs
Genesis of 4p1000
โฆso they can share in economic growth and manage natural resources in the face of climate change and other challenges
100 to 200 billon dollars fertilizer value to replace nutrients lost by erosion worrldwide
During the CSA conference in March, the French Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, Stรฉphane Le Foll announced public subsidies will be available for an international research project on the restoration of degraded soils and soil carbon sequestration