{"id":3509,"date":"2024-05-16T20:06:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:27:39","slug":"workshop-strategies-address-soil-acidity-east-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/events\/workshop-strategies-address-soil-acidity-east-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on Strategies to Address Soil Acidity and Enhance Soil Health in the East African Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soil acidity in East Africa is threatening agricultural systems, posing a problem for many smallholder farmers in the region. IISD is working with the East African Community (EAC) to develop recommendations for tackling soil acidity using soil amendments and soil conservation measures.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These recommendations were presented to policy officials from EAC partner states and subject experts during a 2-day workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. It focused on five strategic priority areas based on research, interviews, and findings from a series of case studies. It also outlined actors that can help coordinate and implement each recommendation, as well as provided opportunities for participants to share experiences and lessons learned.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"wp-image-3523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soil-acidity-workshop-kenya-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Workshop participants in Kenya, May 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soil-acidity-workshop-kenya-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soil-acidity-workshop-kenya-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soil-acidity-workshop-kenya-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/soil-acidity-workshop-kenya.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IISD partnered with the East African Community to host a workshop on practical recommendations and steps for tackling soil acidity in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}