Healthy soils are fundamental to food security, climate resilience and economic prosperity. Yet soil degradation, declining agricultural productivity and dependence on imported synthetic fertilizers continue to challenge food systems across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Bio-inputs offer an important opportunity to restore soil health, strengthen agricultural resilience, improve farmer livelihoods and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, while supporting more diversified and locally driven agricultural input systems.

This COP31 side event, convened by WRI Africa and partners, will bring together policymakers, researchers, development partners, practitioners and private-sector leaders from Africa, Latin America and Asia to examine the evidence, share successful experiences and identify pathways for scaling inclusive bio-input ecosystems.

The discussion will explore the investments, enabling policies, regulatory frameworks, quality assurance systems, certification mechanisms and innovative financing needed to accelerate adoption and scale, and will feature high level government officials, leadership, leading researchers, development partners and private-sector voices, including Hon. Jiwoh Abdulai, Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Sierra Leone, delivering a keynote address to explore what it will take to scale bio-inputs through stronger policies, investment and partnerships across the Global South.

The session will seek to build a shared evidence base, identify priority investment and policy actions, and mobilize partnerships towards a COP32 Action Roadmap positioning bio-inputs as an important pillar of climate action, soil health, food security and agricultural transformation.

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