Abstract
Land management practices that increase soil carbon stocks on agricultural lands with practices including conservation agriculture and agroforestry do not only limit carbon dioxide emissions but also enhance soil health and productivity. Activities that bring smallholder farmers’ households to adopt practices that increase soil carbon stocks on agricultural lands and enhance soil health and productivity, and give them ability to use dry toilets – as incentives – for social, economic and environmental benefits were carried out to address these problems included raising smallholder farmers’ households awareness of conversion of croplands to well-managed agroforestry systems through planting at least 20 fruit trees and/or acacias for 1 dry toilet constructed for free; information and awareness on soil carbon and practices that sequester it in soil and ecological sanitation; and providing technique and material support for agroforestry implementation and toilet construction. In 2018 and 2019, 19 of 23 targeted smallholder farmers’ households converted their croplands to agroforestry though planting 374 trees and each had one dry toilet constructed. In 2018, 11 selected smallholder farmers’ households expressed their satisfaction and have planted 374 trees and each had one dry toilet constructed for free. Their neighbors expressed willingness to participate in this soil health operation. Given many advantages agroforestry and dry toilet can offer to smallholder farmers’ households, recommendations are made for funding organizations to support such initiatives that promote the adoption of soil health practices – especially conversion from croplands to agroforestry in combination with soil conservation and management methods.
Presenters
Stanis Koko NyalongomoJournalist, Congolese Press Agency, Bandundu, Congo-Kinshasa Moise Kisempa Mahungudi
Moise Kisempa
Ministry of Finance, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Benjamin Mputela Bankanza
Financial Manager, Department of Finances, Ecosystems Restoration Associates Congo
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Theme
Technical, Political, and Social Responses
KEYWORDS
Agroforestry, Carbon Dioxide, Dry Toilet, Incentives, Smallholder Farmers, Soil Healthy
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