The Organising Committee of the Asia-Pacific “4 per 1000” Initiative Regional Conference are pleased to invite policy makers, scientists, researchers and project holders (farmer organizations, NGOs, businesses) concerning the Asia-Pacific region to submit their work as abstract. The topic of this year’s regional conference is on “Soil Health to address Climate Change and Food Security”.

The conference will be held between the dates of September 19th to 22nd 2023 at Kanha Shanti Vanam, Hyderabad, India. Along with the “4 per 1000 Initiative”, the conference is Co-organized by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Alliance Bioversity International-CIAT, Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS) and Heartfulness Institute

We are open to receiving contributions as presentation or poster and the Scientific Committee of the conference will review the abstracts and propose the program for the sessions. All abstracts must be submitted in English with a maximum of 250 words excluding the title. Authors can submit multiple abstracts but due to the volume of contributions received, only one will most probably be chosen. The abstract should cover one of the following topics and a maximum of four keywords can be selected from the list below in the abstract.

Topics: Soil Carbon Sequestration in Asia and the Pacific, Soil Health in Asia and the Pacific, Best Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and the role of soil, Advances in Measuring and Modelling Soil Processes, Advances in Technology for small and large scale monitoring, Proposition for scaling-up of good practices, Farmer level innovations,

Keywords: Carbon Sequestration, Soil health, Soil Quality, Forestry, Agroforestry, Agriculture, Nature-based solutions, Soil biodiversity, Statistical Modeling, Uncertainty Estimation, Remote Sensing, Scalable Solutions, Machine Learning, Monitoring reporting and validation, long term experiments, innovative measurements.

Conference website: https://heartfulness.org/en/soil-health-conference-kanha-shanti-vanam-hyderabad/

Abstract template link: Soil Health Abstract

Download Poster Template: Link

Contact: For any questions, please contact us at: apac.conference@4p1000.org