Recarbonizing global soils
a technical manual of recommended management practices: introduction and methodology: volume1
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils
text
FAO, Rome
FAO
2021
monographic
eng
52 p.
During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans. Soils as a carbon pool are one of the key factors in several Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 15, “Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss” with the SOC stock being explicitly cited in Indicator 15.3.1.
This technical manual is the first attempt to gather, in a standardized format, the existing data on the impacts of the main soil management practices on SOC content in a wide array of environments, including the advantages, drawbacks, and constraints. This manual presents different sustainable soil management (SSM) practices at different scales and in different contexts, supported by case studies that have been shown with quantitative data to have a positive effect on SOC stocks and successful experiences of SOC sequestration in practical field applications.
Volume 1 is an introduction to the full collection and presents the detailed methodology and structure of the following volumes.
FAO and ITPS
Soil management
Sustainable Development Goals
Soil conservation
978-92-5-134838-3
https://doi.org/10.4060/cb6386en
https://doi.org/10.4060/cb6386en
SN
230203
20230203115722.0