ORCaSa project

Happy #WorldSoilDay ! 🌱🪱 This year's theme is 'Caring for Soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage'. That is most fitting, because one of the objectives of the Soil Carbon IRC is to establish a harmonized framework for soil carbon #MRV. Indeed, understanding and identifying the various tools, parameters, data, and application contexts on soil will greatly facilitate the day-to-day work of environmental experts and stakeholders. Accurate soil data, information and methods is important to improve soil management and enhance decision-making for sustainable practices. According to FAO, this could enable soils to sequester up to 2 gigatonnes of CO2 per year more effectively. Ultimately, the aim is to guarantee soil #health and #food security 🚜🌽 Check out our latest scientific publication 👉https://urlr.me/MqAvnV

[NEWS] 🌍 Advancing soil health in Mediterranean Africa 🌱 Soil Carbon IRC recently participated in the "4 per 1000 Mediterranean Regional Conference 2024" in Rabat, Morocco. Led by Suzanne REYNDERS (INRAE), the team addressed key soil challenges: ➡️ 'Wole Fatunbi, from Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa - FARA, called for science-based agroecology and a Soil Information System to support African farmers ➡️ Ainhoa Ihasusta, from CESBIO, presented a unified #MRV (Monitoring, Reporting & Verification) framework to enhance #soil carbon management Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3CaN5He #SoilHealth #SustainableAgriculture #ClimateAction

⏳Only a few days left to answer our survey and tell us what is your experience with our platform #Impact4Soil ⌛ Your feedback will help us add new features to make this tool even more effective and contribute the healthy #soils 🌱 Start the survey 👉 https://urlr.me/1H4nj Visit Impact4Soil 👉 www.impact4soil.com

Visual results of my live performance for the event : Policy Workshop on International Carbon Certification Schemes https://lnkd.in/dDmV62pD Many thanks to Mathilde and Christophe from ARCTIK - Communication for Sustainability for their trust and my friend Vincent Rif for his recommandation ;-)

[SURVEY] A few months ago, the #Impact4Soil platform went live 💻 It is aimed at a range of professionals and experts from the research community, but also the private sector, NGOs, policy-makers, and anyone with an interest in the health of our #soils 🍃 Today, we would like to give the floor to our various #users: those who contributed to the pre-launch phases and to the definition of the platform's needs and functionalities, those who took part in its launch, and regular or occasional users, etc. Your feedback will help us add new features to make the platform even more effective in meeting users' needs and expectations. Our survey is open until 15 November, and we promise it will only take 5 to 10 minutes of your day! 😊 Start the survey 🚀 https://lnkd.in/euGMnMjZ

[NEWS] What happens when we put researchers, regional experts and other international stakeholders in a room and get them to think pragmatically about harmonised guidelines for #soil carbon policies and innovation schemes? 🍃💡💬 This is the challenge we took up last week in Brussels and it led to in-depth exchanges and enthusiastic visions for advancing soil health and climate policies 👉https://lnkd.in/e8QCFW95 #EUSoilMission #HorizonEurope

[NEWS] Last week, ORCaSa held its annual meeting in Brussels, marking the project's final year and key collaborations. For the first time, representatives from all 5⃣ regional nodes—Australia, Brazil, Ghana, Vietnam, and the US—met face-to-face 🌍 Key highlights: ➡️ Focus on the #Impact4Soil platform, with plans for user feedback and feature development. ➡️ Development of a 'cookbook' Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (MRV) framework to harmonise soil organic carbon monitoring globally. ➡️ Insights from sister projects: Project Marvic, EJP SOIL & SoilWise Project ➡️ Updates from regional nodes on soil carbon progress: CSIRO, Colorado State University, Embrapa, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa - FARA & SFRI 🔗 Read more: https://urlr.me/FJX7G #EUSoilMission #HorizonEurope #SoilHealth

The #soil carbon family is huge and the ORCaSa project Annual meeting is always a good opportunity to meet again and begin new collaboration 🤝💡 This afternoon, we are welcoming into the discussions representatives from EJP SOIL, Project Marvic, SoilWise Project, MRV4SOC project to present their repositories, main outputs, and datasets. Together we are advancing soil health around Europe 🇪🇺 #EUSoilMission #HorizonEurope ISRIC - World Soil Information INRAE

📍Live from Comet Meetings #Brussels...it's a packed room for our policy workshop on international #carbon certification schemes! We're digging into key discussion points🍃: 🔹Comparing public schemes in Australia, the US, the Pacific and Europe 🔹How to make #soil modelling and information available on a global scale 🔹The role of the Soil Carbon IRC in connecting these different regions 🔹The wider #MissionSoil context and objectives Don't miss out! Stay tuned for a policy paper, coming soon:https://bit.ly/4gGxlM8 INRAE CIRAD ARCTIK - Communication for Sustainability Photo credit Vivian Hertz #HorizonEurope #SoilHealth

Closing out today's policy workshop with a discussion led by Jean-François Soussana, Vice-President International INRAE, and Edouard Lanckriet, Strategy Director and Carbon Farming Expert, agrosolutions. 💬A highly interesting (and unique) debate about future guidelines for harmonising carbon polices and credits across different soils and regional contexts🌎. 🙏Thank you for key contributions, examples and solutions from the 5️⃣ Soil Carbon IRC regional nodes. (And for shouting out #ORCaSa and other EU projects working to create a modular, unified framework for this, based on science and research!) Stay tuned for a policy paper, coming soon: https://bit.ly/4gGxlM8 INRAE CIRAD Vizzuality CSIRO Colorado State University Embrapa Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa - FARA Soil Carbon IRC #HorizonEurope #MissionSoil #SoilHealth #MRV Photo credit Vivian Hertz