2. Pillar 1…
… implementation on the ground
Identify appropriate SSM
practices,
adapt them,
implement at appropriate
scales
Createanenablingenvironment
Technical and political
barriers
Capacity development
Monitor SSM
implementation
Ensure balanced soil
fertility management
More ha
under SSM
3. How does Pillar 1 relate to other Pillars?
Pillar 2 Pillar 3
Pillar 4 Pillar 5
Pillar 1
SSM
Implemented
Human, capital, political,
financial resources
Remove adoption barriers
Provide authoritative
data to assess progress in
SSM implementation
Key science and socio-
economic data
Bridge knowledge gaps
Improve and standardize
methods for reliable SSM
adoption indicators
Invest, coop, policy, edu,
awareness, extension
Data and information Harmonization
Research
4. Pillar 1 Global Implementation Plan P1 GIP
Process
Timing
P1 writing
team
Plan of Action: 2nd Plenary Assembly 2014
P1 GIP initiated 13 Feb 2018 (2 months)
• Based on recent GSP developments and priorities / RIPs
ITPS Endorsement: 30 April 2018
Implementation 2018 – 2022 (5 years)
4 Activities
GSP Secretariat
ITPS Pillar 1 Chair
Pillar 1 Regional Chairs
5. SSM best practices
Estimated budget: USD 1,020,000
• Bulk budget to support regional
implementation
• Foundation of most other activities
Global guidelines to test soil
management practices against SSM
definition
Global database of
SSM best practicesRefine guidelines to
regional / national
context
Regional and local sub-
datasets of SSM best
practices
ITPS Guidance
Document on
Assessment of SSM
6. Regional maps of successful SSM
1. Identify regional/national projects of successful SSM
(use guidelines) iSQAPER Pedoclimatic zones
Corine LandUse
Soil threat
2. Map projects based on:
Location
Aerial extent
Specific site characteristics (regional)
Land use
Pedoclimatic zones
Biomes
Land zoning
Soil threats
Others
Map metadata:
• Site characteristics
• SSM practices
• Barriers
• Stakeholders
3. Monitor areas under SSM:
increasing / decreasing (Link to Pillar 4)
Estimated budget: USD 325,000
To be supplemented by national / regional contributions
• Showcase success
7. Implement WSC and VGSSM
1. Assess performance of GSP partners against WSC (done)
2. Regional and national awareness and capacity development
workshops on VGSSM
3. Develop technical manuals for
managing the 10 soil threats
i.e. Guidelines on soil organic
matter management
4. Link to Pillar 2:
• Capacity development on SSM practices
• Integrate soil governance for soil protection
Estimated budget: USD 275,000
Requires national/regional contributions
• Provision of workshop facilities
• Manpower – workshop arrangement
and implementation
8. Implement SSM projects
1. Develop comprehensive project proposals
2. Implement SSM project in all regions
a. Up-scaling existing projects
b. New project concepts
Barriers to adoption
Develop policy support
Capacity development (before/during)
Needs assessment to adapt SSM practices
Knowledge exchange
Develop decision support systems
Monitoring of SSM management impact on soil
Estimated budget: USD 15,100,000
• Require active national/regional participation in
proposal writing (ownership and local context)
• Bulk of the budget for implementation (could be seen
as seed funding)
Map all new
projects
9. Guidance on assessment of SSM
ITPS, May 2018 (Annex to P1 GIP)
First step towards assessment of:
Economic benefits of SSM for farmers and other land users
Goal: Provide guidance on how to assess the sustainability of soil
management
Soil management is sustainable if the supporting,
provisioning, regulating, and cultural services provided by
the soil are maintained or enhanced without significantly
impairing either the soil functions that enable those
services or biodiversity
Broadens sustainability assessment to include
SM effect on ESS (or nature’s contribution to
people, NCP)
10. Information required to assess SSM
1. Specification of management
2. Identification of threats to ESS, soil function (SF) and biodiversity
(BD)
3. Specification of acceptable levels of threats
Threats well established for soil functions.
Not fully established for ESS. Preliminary list for 3 primary ESS compiled
Question to be addressed:
What are the acceptable impacts of human use of soil on ESS, soil
functions, and biodiversity?
11. Stages of SSM Assessment
1. Compile information on current
or proposed management
2. Identify management-related
threats to soil-provided ESS, SF, BD
3. Compile science-based info on
acceptable levels of threats
4. Compile local knowledge on
acceptable levels of threats.
5. Link current or proposed
management to identified threats.
6. Compare probable effects of
current or proposed management to
acceptable levels of threats.
7. Assess socio-economic and cultural
implications of current or proposed
management measures.
8. Implement changes to
management / overcome barriers
to adoption of such changes.
9. Recognition of achievement of
sustainability.
Certification /
Financial rewards
Government/NGO/Extension
Land managers (with above)
12. Action by GSP members
1. Support in development of SSM assessment guidelines
• In-kind through provision of time of experts
• Identification of management practices
• Available information on indicators / threat levels
2. Identify and map successful SSM projects
• Incentive to showcase national success stories – visibility to donors
• Highlight overcoming barriers to adoption – lessons learnt
3. Implement WSC and VGSSM
• Organize national workshops
• Assess national actions / legislation with VGSSM
4. Implement SSM Projects
• Active participation in proposal writing
• Provide national context, needs
• Take ownership
Total budget: USD 16,720,000
Please know
and support
your focal
point.
Notes de l'éditeur
Pillar 1 PoA Recommendations
Identify appropriate SSM practices, adapt them and implement at appropriate scales (cost-benefit)
Support sustainable agricultural production by balances soil fertility management and appropriate physical management
Assess and address barriers to adoption (technically and politically)
Monitor SSM implementation
Capacity development to promote SSM adoption
I inserted this only in the presentation so it can be discussed if necessary. Mainly to show that by comparison the global budget is relatively low. Feel free to keep it or not.
This definition has two distinct parts. First, to be sustainable, soil management must maintain or enhance the ecosystem services provided by the soil (which are summarized in Table 1.2, SWSR). Although all services provided by the soil are important, the WSC recognizes that “The balance between the supporting and provisioning services for plant production and the regulating services the soil provides for water quality and availability and for atmospheric greenhouse gas composition is a particular concern.”
Put more simply, soil management that maintains or increases yields but which leads to unacceptably high greenhouse gas emissions or contamination of water bodies is, by definition, unsustainable.
The second part of the definition states that management that leads to maintenance or enhancement of services is not sustainable if it causes significant impairment of either soil functions or biodiversity. This part of the definition is more similar to traditional definitions of SSM insofar as it is soil-centric, rather than focusing on the effects of soil management on the surrounding environment.
The NCP framework recognizes both the beneficial and detrimental contributions of ecosystems to people and re-balances the importance of culture vis-à-vis natural science and economics. The ecosystem services discussed in our document can be readily mapped to the NCP categories
The object being assessed is the management that is in place or is being proposed for a specific area. For agriculture, the management regime may include considerations of tillage, crop rotation, residue management, nutrient and manure inputs, drainage, timing of farm operations, and various pest control measures. For forestry or agroforestry the regime may include specific issues such as harvest methods, site preparation for replanting, and log handling methods as well as some of the nutrient and pest control measures.
These lists are not meant to be exhaustive but only to illustrate the diversity of measures to be considered. In some cases, the measures can be directly observed (tillage, residue management, crop selection); in others record keeping by land managers is required (e.g. pesticide regime, fertilizer inputs, timing of field operations). The Land Utilization Type classification presented in the FAO’s (1976) Framework for Land Evaluation specifies many of the elements that need to be assessed.
The most fully developed threats to ESS system is the Agri-Environmental Indicators reporting system implemented by the OECD (STATS.OECD.ORG).
The assessment of sustainability of soil management would result in two general outcomes. In the first, the soil management currently being applied could be assessed to determine if it is sustainable. This would occur if, for example, a land manager desired to be certified as practicing SSM. If the current management was deemed to be sustainable (i.e., stage 6 showed that no identified threats were operating at unacceptable levels) and was economically and socially acceptable (i.e., stage 7) then no changes to management would be required. The same would be true for proposed management changes to an existing management regime (e.g. a change in tillage implements or in fertilization application) that passed stage 6 and 7 – no barriers to implementation exist and the change could be implemented.
In the second outcome, the current or proposed management contains practices that are deemed to be unsustainable in stage 6. In this case, alternative practices would need to be evaluated for both their effect on the threat and their social, economic, and cultural acceptability.