Healthy soil is the foundation of our food systems, supporting everything from food and nutrition security to carbon sequestration, water cycle regulation, and biodiversity. Yet, land degradation affects more than 3.2 billion people globally.
In this webinar, hosted by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and CIFOR-ICRAF through the #Visibilize4ClimateAction project, experts shared insights on monitoring soil health, land degradation, and vegetation diversity in sub-Saharan Africa. The discussion explored the use of field assessments, advanced data analytics, Earth observation, and citizen science to track changes over time, including soil organic carbon. These methods are being implemented and scaled across agricultural landscapes, rangelands, and forests, in collaboration with partners across 40 countries in the global tropics.
