Dear Madam, Sir,
Thank you for the possibility to make a comment on the present V0 Draft.
I would suggest to underline the following interrelation: agroforestry supports the mitigation of climate change through the posibility to transform the pruned material into biochar which is mixed with the soil and stored in the soil for several hundred of years:
In a degraded soil are implemented brushes and trees in between or around fields with crops, forage or fruit trees. The leaves do mulch the soil and will decompose to humus. So, the soil begins to restore, getting a diversified and rich life of microorganisms. Fertile soil will develop healthy plants. The accompanying species need to be pruned periodically. The pruning material is transformed to biochar, which is storing CO2 and is activated with input from the own farm (manure, output from dry/compost-toilets) to Terra preta. This increases the soil fertility and soil is changing to a living soil with a huge diversity of organisms and plenty of nutrients for organic food production. In addition, production of agroforestry products with Terra preta is mitigating climate change because biochar is a carbon sink, which reduces the impact of climate change.
Best regards,
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Noemi Stadler-Kaulich
MOLLESNEJTA
Centro de Agroforestería Andina
Zentrum für Andine Agroforstwirtschaft
Noemi Stadler-Kaulich