The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) joined forces in 2019, leveraging a combined 65 years’ experience in research on the role of forests and trees in solving critical global challenges.
Project Scientists presented at the Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon
The Symposium was a scientific meeting, held over three days, 21-23 March 2017, at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy with over 400 participants representing all regions of the world. Visit the symposium webpage here: http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/d68134e9-3ca5-43f0-98ac-9239aaac9659/
The three main themes of the symposium were:
1. Measuring, mapping, monitoring and reporting SOC;
2. Maintaining and/or increasing SOC stocks (fostering SOC sequestration) for climate change mitigation and adaptation, and Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN);
3. Managing SOC in soils with a) high SOC - peatlands, permafrost, and black soils b) grasslands and livestock production systems and c) in dryland soils.
ICRAF scientists contributed to Theme 1 and presented on the application of systematic mapping and monitoring techniques for assessing soil organic carbon (SOC), highlighting the utility for the Sustainable Development Goals, and the United Nations Conventions: CBD, UNFCCC and UNCCD. View the ICRAF presentation here: https://www.slideshare.net/agroforestry/spatial-assessment-of-the-mapping-and-monitoring-of-soil-organic-carbon
See full blog here: http://blog.worldagroforestry.org/index.php/2017/03/28/soil-management-land-restoration-vital-meeting-climate-change-sustainable-development-targets/
ICRISAT scientist also contributed to the symposium and presented within Theme 3 on Managing SOC in the Drylands. View the ICRISAT presentation here: https://www.slideshare.net/agroforestry/sequestering-soil-carbon-in-the-low-input-farming-systems-of-the-semiarid-tropics-does-litter-quality-matter
The agenda for the symposium is online here:
http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/d68134e9-3ca5-43f0-98ac-9239aaac9659/
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