EVENT NAME Managing Soils to Address Global Challenges EVENT DATE: THURSDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2022 ----------------------------------------------- EVENT CHAT [2022-02-24 09:32:20] [Francis Kamuhanda] Hello Everyone, [2022-02-24 09:32:46] [Jashanjeet Kaur Dhaliwal] Hello all [2022-02-24 09:33:04] [Richard Lee Tinsley] Dick Tinsley, from frigid Colorado [2022-02-24 09:33:23] [Francis Kamuhanda] Hello Everyone, I am Francis Kamuhanda Project and Research Assistant Nascent Solutions Alexandria VA [2022-02-24 09:33:24] [Moffatt Ngugi] Moffatt Ngugi, Environment Officer USAID. Greetings everyone! [2022-02-24 09:33:35] [Rowena Andrea Santos] Hi Colleagues. Rowena Valmonte-Santos, IFPRI, DC, USA [2022-02-24 09:33:39] [Lewis K. Kamiri] Hello from MN! [2022-02-24 09:33:44] [Amadou Diane] Amadou Diane [2022-02-24 09:33:55] [IBNMRHAR MERYEM] hello I'm Meryem from Morocco [2022-02-24 09:34:06] [Eva Christensen] Greetings everyone! Eva Christensen, Sr. Resilience Advisor, Corus International [2022-02-24 09:34:17] [Godfrey Magoma] Godfrey Magoma, from World Renew Tanzania. Conservation Agriculture Project coordinator [2022-02-24 09:34:17] [Sudarshan Raj Sharma] Namaste and Hello from Nepal [2022-02-24 09:34:26] [Glenn A. Lines] Hello everyone - My name is Glenn Lines and I am working with ACDI/VOCA. [2022-02-24 09:34:34] [ANDRIAFANOMEZANA Mamisoa] ANDRIAFANOMEZANA Mamisoa, Agriculture Technical Director, ADRA Madagascar [2022-02-24 09:34:52] [Kelsey Mercurio] Hello! Kelsey Mercurio from the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service in Massachusetts, USA [2022-02-24 09:35:07] [Amadou Diane] Amadou Diane / Project Management Specialist; Agriculture / Agriculture and Economic Growth Office / USAID Mali [2022-02-24 09:35:19] [Carmen Benson] Greetings! Carmen Benson, Senior Counselor to the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development, Tetra Tech DC [2022-02-24 09:35:58] [Kakooza Steven] Hello Steven Kakooza - Publich health microbiologist / Scientist Makerere University Uganda [2022-02-24 09:37:23] [JAYASHREE SALIAN] Hello all! Jayashree Salian from Oklahoma state university, MPH candidate [2022-02-24 09:37:44] [cj Lamont] I am multi-tasking today (scheduling overlap). Will there be a recording provided later so that I may listen with full attention? Thank you. [2022-02-24 09:37:47] [Seth Tetteh] Hello, I am Qwame Seth, a PhD student from WUR (in the Netherlands) and UM6P (in Morocco) [2022-02-24 09:37:52] [Austen Moore] Hi everyone. Austen Moore from Catholic Relief Services. [2022-02-24 09:38:10] [Guest] Greetings! Busela Yuga, From DCT Tanzania [2022-02-24 09:38:48] [Obinna Adumanya] Greetings to all. Adumanya Obinna, PhD from University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Umuagwo Imo State, Nigeria +234-08037730442 [2022-02-24 09:38:57] [Sissiman Ky] Hello all! Sissiman KY /Project manager-CORDAID Mali. [2022-02-24 09:39:07] [Yarou Boni] Hi every one. I'm Yarou Boni, research assistant at the World Vegetable Center (Benin) [2022-02-24 09:39:07] [Mulugeta Demiss Belew] Hello all, Mulugeta Belew from IFDC HQ [2022-02-24 09:39:22] [ADAMU MUHAMMAD BELLO] hi everyone is ADAMU MUHAMMED BELLO from Nigeria [2022-02-24 09:39:29] [Felix Atamba] Greatings! Felix Atamba, Bsc. student from University of Nairobi in Kenya. It's great being part of this😃 [2022-02-24 09:39:40] [Mika’il Haruna Daya] Hello Everyone, My name is Mika’il Haruna Daya from Nigeria I am the Founder, DryLands Initiative For Ecosystem Restoration and Capacity Building. [2022-02-24 09:39:55] [Schafer Castella] Is the food waste per capita calculated based on people's individual food waste or all food waste in various supply chains divided by the population? [2022-02-24 09:40:01] [Shiferaw Tafesse] Greetings! I am Shiferaw Tafesse, Senior Program Officer, Sustainable Land Use and Agriculture Program, Global Green Growth Institute Ethiopia office. [2022-02-24 09:41:03] [michael.kdlt] Reminder to post your questions for Dr. Rattan in the Q&A box in the bottom right. [2022-02-24 09:41:19] [Cary Fowler] Warm greetings to everyone. [2022-02-24 09:41:32] [Nyawa Chengoni ] Mambo everyone I'm Nyawa Chengoni from Kenya. In Kenya mambo means hello. I'm happy to be part and parcel of this😃❤️👍 [2022-02-24 09:42:03] [michael.kdlt] Thank you for joining us, everyone! [2022-02-24 09:42:26] [Tarek Jarrahi] Hi everyone; I am Tarek Jarrahi from Tunisia [2022-02-24 09:42:41] [Nang Seng Aye] Mingalar Par! Greeting from Myanmar. Nang Seng Aye, Chief Agronomist from Proximity Designs. [2022-02-24 09:42:43] [Dr Sultan Mahmud] Hi, Its Dr Sultan Mahmud from Dhaka [2022-02-24 09:43:51] [Dora Neina] I am Dr Dora Neina, Senior lecturer of Soil Science, University of Ghana [2022-02-24 09:44:02] [Dora Neina] Greettingd to everyone [2022-02-24 09:45:58] [Olaide Adeosun] Hello everyone, I am Olaide from ARMTI, Nigeria [2022-02-24 09:47:02] [Su Kahumbu] Su Kahumbu - www. iCow. Co. me Hi from Kenya [2022-02-24 09:47:26] [Don Humpal] Hello, Don Humpal, Senior Agriculturist, DAI Global, Sacramento, CA USA [2022-02-24 09:47:59] [Jim Ouko ] Jim Ouko here from western Kenya. hello everyone [2022-02-24 09:48:08] [Abdul Wakeel ] Dr Abdul Wakeel, University of Agriculture Faisalabad [2022-02-24 09:49:48] [Md. Abdul Gaffar] This is Abdul Gaffar from Bangladesh. Good morning/good evening everyone! [2022-02-24 09:50:34] [Kinley Tshering] Hello, Kinley Tshering, SFPNO from Bhutan [2022-02-24 09:51:07] [Fekadu Gutema] This Fekadu Gutema from Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research [2022-02-24 09:51:22] [cj Lamont] Hello all from Vienna, Austria. Will there be a recording of this webinar available afterwards? Much important information to review from this. Thank you. [2022-02-24 09:53:01] [Albin Hubscher] Dr. Lal, you indicate that Agriculture produces 30-35% greenhouse gase emissions. Other sources including our world in data indicate 18-20%. Why this difference? [2022-02-24 09:53:55] [michael.kdlt] @Albin Hubscher please post your questions for Dr. Rattan in the Q&A box in the bottom right. [2022-02-24 09:54:30] [michael.kdlt] @cj Lamont Yes, everyone will be sent a recording of the webinar and the slides. [2022-02-24 09:55:01] [Patrick Hanemann] Greetings from Portland OR--Patrick Hanemann, Farm2Market Agribusiness Consulting [2022-02-24 09:55:44] [Paul Guenette] Paul Guenette, from Winter/Spring in Bethesda, MD [2022-02-24 09:55:46] [Su Kahumbu] Micro organisms are critical to soil health yet never mentioned . We're missing critical players in soil health. [2022-02-24 09:57:10] [Alexis Rampa] @Albin Hubscher - He is talking about the contribution of food systems (not just agric and land use change); see e.g. Crippa et al (2021) [2022-02-24 09:57:24] [Su Kahumbu] Regenerative Ag looks at building soils by recognising and co opting soil microbes not by supplement soils with synthetic fertilizers. [2022-02-24 09:58:56] [Rukevwe Olughor] Hello everyone, l am Dr. R. J. Olughor a Faculty member of Augustine University Epe Lagos Nigeria [2022-02-24 10:01:21] [Loren Schulze] Hello from Bethesda, MD and ME&A, Inc. Interesting and important information is being shared. Thank you all!! [2022-02-24 10:01:49] [Devona Bell] Hello from the rainy cold Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. I'm Devona Bell from Heifer. [2022-02-24 10:02:02] [Bryan Sobel] Hi All, Bryan Sobel from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. Great to see so many familiar names in the chat for this important presentation! [2022-02-24 10:05:43] [Jeff Herrick] Jeff Herrick - USDA-ARS Jornada/LandPKS [2022-02-24 10:05:43] [Jeff Herrick] Jeff Herrick - USDA-ARS Jornada/LandPKS [2022-02-24 10:05:46] [Fekadu Gutema] Sir, can you share this important slides . thank. b/c of poor internet connection, I was unable to catch up every point. Thanks [2022-02-24 10:06:16] [michael.kdlt] @Fekadu Gutema Yes, we will send out the slides after the event. [2022-02-24 10:06:23] [Carl Wahl] Carl Wahl, Senior Agriculture Advisor, USAID -BHA [2022-02-24 10:06:59] [Bob Tansey] This is a significant presentation and framing. Many thanks! Bob Tansey, Global Policy Lead for Agriculture, The Nature Conservancy, rtansey@tnc.org [2022-02-24 10:07:06] [CHARLES WILLIAMSON] Charles Williamson, graduate student, Clemson University, SC USA [2022-02-24 10:07:13] [Debebe Gashawbeza Dejenu] I am Debebe Gashawbeza from Ethiopia. [2022-02-24 10:08:35] [Melkamu Hordofa Sigaye ] Greetings, all I am from Ethiopia [2022-02-24 10:09:43] [ABER CINDERELLA] Aber cinderella, student from Gulu University, faculty of agriculture and environment in uganda [2022-02-24 10:10:48] [Michael Colby] Mike Colby, Washington DC [2022-02-24 10:11:18] [Schafer Castella] Schafer Bomstein Castella, Associate Director, Technical Program Development, CNFA in Washington, DC [2022-02-24 10:11:31] [Tracey Duffey] Greetings everyone. Tracey Duffey from ofi (Olam Food Ingredients). Thank you for the informative presentation. [2022-02-24 10:11:43] [Schafer Castella] Hi Tracey :) [2022-02-24 10:11:49] [Gobena Dirirsa] Hello every one, this is Gobena Dirirsa from Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research [2022-02-24 10:12:09] [Kevin Kabunda] Kevin Kabunda, Chief of Party, Global Communities, Lusaka, Zambia. Thank you for the informative presentation [2022-02-24 10:12:30] [Shawn Baker] Shawn Baker, USAID, Chief Nutritionist [2022-02-24 10:12:52] [Nyawa Chengoni ] Thanks Doc for this. Please can we get a recording too afterwards [2022-02-24 10:13:47] [michael.kdlt] @Nyawa Chengoni Yes, we will send out the recording and slides after the event! [2022-02-24 10:13:48] [M hari santoso ] good presentation harry indonesia [2022-02-24 10:14:18] [Nyawa Chengoni ] Thanks @ Michael [2022-02-24 10:15:26] [Esther Afedido] Esther Afedido, from Maphlix Trust Ghana Limited ......thanks for such a educat6ing pre [2022-02-24 10:16:01] [Tashi Gyalmo] A very interesting and informative presentation. I would be very grateful if the slides could be shared later on. With immense gratitude, Tashi from Bhutan. [2022-02-24 10:16:30] [Esther Afedido] *educating presentation.would appreciate it if the slides could be shared . thanks [2022-02-24 10:16:55] [Debebe Gashawbeza Dejenu] Pease share us the presentations. [2022-02-24 10:17:08] [michael.kdlt] We will send out the recording and slides after the event! [2022-02-24 10:17:58] [Dr Sultan Mahmud] Thank you micheal [2022-02-24 10:17:58] [Dr Sultan Mahmud] Thank you micheal [2022-02-24 10:17:58] [Dr Sultan Mahmud] Thank you micheal [2022-02-24 10:17:59] [Dr Sultan Mahmud] Thank you micheal [2022-02-24 10:17:59] [Dr Sultan Mahmud] Thank you micheal [2022-02-24 10:19:35] [Kaushlendra Tingi] Is there method to provide carbon credit for agricultural products, which have more than 2 years of utilization life cycle? Examples are Cotton and other fiber crops. [2022-02-24 10:19:44] [Patrick Hanemann] claudia ringler [2022-02-24 10:21:07] [Kaushlendra Tingi] Relating to Terra Preta soils, what are benefits of adding charcoal to soils for enhacing carbon sequestration? [2022-02-24 10:21:13] [Michael Colby] What do you think about the importance of fungi in sol health? [2022-02-24 10:21:14] [Ryan Hobert] Brilliant presentation! Maybe someone already asked this, but will this webinar be made available to rewatch later? Thanks! [2022-02-24 10:21:27] [michael.kdlt] @Kaushlendra Tingi please post your questions for Dr. Rattan in the Q&A box in the bottom right. [2022-02-24 10:21:42] [michael.kdlt] Yes, we will send out the recording and slides after the event. [2022-02-24 10:23:21] [Ryan Hobert] Wonderful! Many thanks. [2022-02-24 10:26:13] [Hillary Proctor] I'm so thankful that USAID is looking to regenerative agriculture practices as a pathway forward. I am hopeful in seeing this as the lead approach moving forward. [2022-02-24 10:31:15] [Kelsey Mercurio] @Su Kahumbu, I agree with you on the importance of microbes. Smarter integration of biological nitrogen fixation is essential - legume cover crops, agroforestry with legume and actinorhizal trees, inoculants better adapted to individual soils and climates, use of non-symbiotic rhizosphere associated N-fixing microbes... [2022-02-24 10:31:48] [Kelsey Mercurio] Also, mycorrhizal fungi in combination with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria and microbes that break down organic matter can vastly improve the availability of phosphorus and nitrogen and could help target that availability to the critical times for crop growth. [2022-02-24 10:32:11] [Chinta Mani Dhimal] Please share slides [2022-02-24 10:32:13] [Kelsey Mercurio] But, for nutrients other than N, microbes alone cannot put back in the soil nutrients that have been removed. They can make existing nutrients more available. [2022-02-24 10:33:03] [Daniel bailey] It’s hard enough to get educated and prosperous farmers to change their practices. How do you propose we can convince small holder farmers take on that risk? [2022-02-24 10:33:33] [belay chufe] how can manage salt affected soil [2022-02-24 10:37:31] [Kelsey Mercurio] Also we have to keep in mind that soil organic matter in healthy soil is not static - much of it is being actively cycled as microbes grow and die. Some of it becomes stabilized within aggregates and on mineral surfaces though. But that stable OM tends to come from microbial biomass and has lower C:N ratios than plant residue. [2022-02-24 10:38:45] [Moffatt Ngugi] great maxim! Use the Best, Spare the Rest [2022-02-24 10:40:34] [Francis Kamuhanda] I agree with the concept of reducing excess waste of resources [2022-02-24 10:44:46] [belay chufe] am from ethiopia: my quation is how to solve salt afected soil [2022-02-24 10:45:11] [belay chufe] particularly ca and mg [2022-02-24 10:56:41] [Sabrina Birner] please see New YOrker article below, on teh death in Lybian prisons of a young migrant from Guinea Bissau who left his country bc his family's farm was failing. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-libyan-prisons-that-keep-migrants-out-of-europe [2022-02-24 10:56:59] [Tom Miles] Tom Miles US Biochar Initiative. Great presentation. Inspiring and stimulating. Let's act! [2022-02-24 10:57:08] [Sabrina Birner] The link between migration and soil health is important. [2022-02-24 10:59:08] [Jawoo Koo] We have strong scientific knowledge on how to manage soils better, but it hasn’t been communicated effectively enough to motivate policymakers to pay more attention and act. I watched a movie called “Don’t look up,” in which scientists try really hard to get important research findings across the audience, and eventually failed even when there were facts and evidence out there. Reflecting on the story, I hope someone makes a sequel “Don’t Look Down!” [2022-02-24 10:59:19] [Sangay Dorji] Due to poor network, we didn't learned much today. However, the organizer is going share us the PPT indeed. [2022-02-24 10:59:28] [Katherine Riebe] Wonderful conversation!!!! [2022-02-24 11:00:02] [Glenn A. Lines] Thank you very much Dr. Lal for a very informative and thought provoking presentation. [2022-02-24 11:00:34] [Abdul Wakeel ] thanks Rattan Lal sb [2022-02-24 11:00:58] [Biniam Iyob] Thank you so much Dr. Lal for the great presentation! [2022-02-24 11:01:31] [Sangay Dorji] Thank you one and all! Bye bye [2022-02-24 11:01:40] [Kelsey Mercurio] thank you! great presentation! [2022-02-24 11:01:42] [Moffatt Ngugi] Thannks!!!| [2022-02-24 11:01:47] [Khin Mar Myo] Thank you [2022-02-24 11:01:50] [Dr Sultan Mahmud] thanks [2022-02-24 11:01:50] [Holiance Odhiambo] Thanks [2022-02-24 11:02:02] [Mika’il Haruna Daya] Very educative [2022-02-24 11:02:10] [Shiferaw Tafesse] Thanks a lot! [2022-02-24 11:02:15] [AKPLO Tobi Moriaque] Thank you Dr Lal. [2022-02-24 11:02:34] [Inés Cavelier] Thank you for an inspiring presentation and answers [2022-02-24 11:03:06] [IBNMRHAR MERYEM] thank you it was so interesting [2022-02-24 11:03:21] [Debebe Gashawbeza Dejenu] Thank You ! -----------------------------------------------