International Soil Conservation Organization
The International Soil Conservation Organization advocates for the sustainable, productive, and efficient use of soil and water resources.
SOURCE: International Soil Conservation Organization
The International Soil Conservation Organization advocates for the sustainable, productive, and efficient use of soil and water resources.
SOURCE: International Soil Conservation Organization
Water utilities have multiple opportunities to engage with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and local Conservation Districts. This summary, published in 2018, outlines USDA programs that protect wildlife habitat, water, soil and air quality.
SOURCE: American Water Works Association
What is carbon sequestration? How can farmers and ranchers discuss it so their communities understand? This primer may help.
SOURCE: Ecological Society of America
Soil Organic Carbon is a vital component of soil with important effects on the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Storage of SOC results from interactions among the dynamic ecological processes of photosynthesis, decomposition, and soil respiration. Human activities over the course of the last 150 years have led to changes in these processes and consequently to the depletion of SOC and the exacerbation of global climate change. But these human activities also now provide an opportunity for sequestering carbon back into soil. Future warming and elevated CO2, patterns of past land use, and land management strategies, along with the physical heterogeneity of landscapes are expected to produce complex patterns of SOC capacity in soil.
SOURCE: Nature
The section of FAO Soils Portal focuses on soil carbon sequestration and conservation tools.
SOURCE: FAO-UN
Launched by France in 2015 at the COP 21, the aim of this initiative is to demonstrate that agriculture, and in particular agricultural soils, can play a crucial role where food security and climate change are concerned. The contention is that an annual growth rate of 0.4% in soil carbon stocks, or 4% per year, would halt the increase in the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere that is attributed to human activities.
SOURCE: CGIAR System Organization, 4p1000
The Noble Research Institute has embarked on a national effort to advance ecosystem service markets that provide incentives to improve soil health systems.
SOURCE: Noble Research Institute
The possibility that N fertilizer increases soil organic matter (SOM) mineralization and, as a result, reduces SOM stocks has led to a great debate about the long-term sustainability of maize-based agroecosystems as well as the best method to estimate fertilizer N use efficiency (FNUE).
SOURCE: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution