Storing Carbon in Agricultural Soils: A Multi-Purpose Environmental Strategy

Soil carbon sequestration can play a strategic role in controlling the increase of CO₂ in the atmosphere and thereby help mitigate climatic change. There are scientific opportunities to increase the capacity of soils to store carbon and remove it from circulation for longer periods of time. The vast areas of degraded and desertified lands throughout the world offer great potential for the sequestration of very large quantities of carbon. If credits are to be bought and sold for carbon stora...