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The impacts of climate change are already being felt across the United States, especially among communities that work closely with our natural and working lands — including farmers, foresters, ranchers, and others. Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry (CSAF) practices help mitigate, adapt, and build resilience to shifting and increasingly severe weather patterns.
Specifically, CSAF practices — including precision fertilizer application, reforestation, and manure management — hold great potential to reduce emissions and sequester carbon to achieve net zero goals. To ensure this sector continues to play a role in achieving net-zero emissions, Alliance members are prioritizing actions that scale up NWL conservation and support climate-smart land use planning, maximize carbon sequestration and resilience co-benefits, and conserve and enhance natural climate solutions while improving data collection on the sector.
To help build on this CASF progress at the state level, this Learning Lab on Accelerating Progress in Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry brought together nearly 100 participants from across the Alliance’s states and territories, as well as several partner organizations, for three days of interactive learning and collaboration.
This included keynote addresses, breakout sessions, and panel discussions on a variety of topics, from advancing state goals through CSAF policies and programs, to best practices for implementing soil health and carbon sequestration initiatives, and supporting resilience and effective stakeholder engagement and communication.
Participants also had the opportunity to interact with other state representatives, experts, practitioners, modelers and data providers, and federal agency representatives to collaborate and exchange knowledge about effective and equitable program and policy design, funding and financing mechanisms, and monitoring methodologies.
The Learning Lab was held at Duke Farms, a 2,700-acre environmental center in Hillsborough, New Jersey.
Alliance National Learning Labs bring together states and territories to dive deep into pressing topics across the Alliance’s 10 Policy Priorities. Learn about our previous Natural & Working Lands 2023 National Learning Lab and Learning Lab on Methane Monitoring and Mitigation Technologies.
Learn more about Alliance action across the Natural & Working Lands sector.
