The main objective of the Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) is to improve soil health globally.
We have a foundational and proactive response for addressing food and nutrition security, climate change, socioeconomic returns and growth, productivity, rural livelihoods, biodiversity, climate and nature.

Our main objective is to improve soil health globally by addressing critical implementation, monitoring, policy, and public private investment barriers that constrain farmers from adopting and scaling healthy soil practices.

There is a glaring need for a focus on soil health as part of food system transformation was brought to light during the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021.
Globally, we are at a crossroad.

We need to ensure the pathway for achieving soil health addresses the multiple barriers obstructing farmers and land managers.

Healthy soil practices will improve ecosystem functions for agricultural, rangeland, wetland and forest systems for many years to come. We aim to guide and catalyse public and market-based private sector investments in soil health. CA4SH is open to all interested stakeholders who are committed to restoring soil health.

HOW THE COALITION OPERATES IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

The coalition will advocate for multi-stakeholder partners to facilitate the adoption and scaling of a global mechanism and processes.
This will be done to guide and catalyse public and market-based private sector investments in soil health, “…with positive outcomes for economic returns and growth, improved productivity and rural livelihoods, climate action and nature.

In addition, the CA4SH will align and leverage off the work of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

Scaling farmer centred land restoration in Africa
This initiative is a flagship success story. The goal of the project was to reduce food security and improve the livelihoods of poorer communities living in African drylands (specifically in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger and Tanzania).

This was done by restoring degraded land and returning it to effective and sustainable tree, crop and livestock production, thereby increasing land profitability, landscape and livelihood resilience.

Living Soils
In line with the SGD Goal 15 to restore and promote the sustainable use of ecosystems, Living Soils in the Americas seeks to promote the uptake of national and local action as best practices to ensure soil sustainability.

It is an initiative that links science, public policies, the private sector and work to rehabilitate degraded soils that currently threaten the position of Latin America and the Caribbean as a guarantor of the world’s food security.

Regreening Africa
Regreening Africa strives to restore ecosystems in 8 countries and improve the resilience of 500,000 households across sub-Saharan Africa.

It aims to do so through innovative solutions like the Regreening Africa App - designed to fill the local knowledge gap by giving local stakeholders (including farmers) that implement land restoration activities a voice.

For example, one of the key practises promoted by the Regreening Africa project, called ‘farmer managed natural regeneration’, builds on the local knowledge of farmers, while being enhanced through scientific methods where needed.