Description

Understanding how best to engage with soil health and biodiversity, and selecting the most effective ways to improve their protection within supply chains, can be a challenge for businesses. This discussion paper provides a broad overview of the impact that agriculture can have on soil health and biodiversity and identifies key actions that businesses can take within their supply chains to support farmers to improve soil health and biodiversity outcomes. We challenge conventional thinking and highlight multiple
business opportunities for investing in soil health and biodiversity, including long-term viability of business models; cost savings; increases in operational efficiency; increased market shares; access to new markets, products and services; predictable and stable supply chains; and better relationships with both stakeholders and customers.

Project Scope

Businesses can enable farmers to make evidence-based decisions by providing resources that facilitate farmer-led monitoring. This in turn enables identification of the most effective measurements for soil health and biodiversity and supports environmentally sound and evidencebased management decisions. Businesses should also embed scientific approaches that integrate soil health and biodiversity into reporting, accounting and supply chain assurance, and demonstrate how such land management systems deliver environmental benefits. Taking a landscape approach to agricultural management can increase the

  • ENABLING LONG-TERM DECISION MAKING & LOCAL ADAPTATION
  • EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING
  • COLLABORATION
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Project Info

Category

Cropping

Location

Kaduna, Nigeria

Square Meters

452,65m²

Project Year

2021

Project Value

2200