CCI workshop report: How can incentives for soil carbon management contribute to food security and biodiversity conservation?
CCI workshop report: How can incentives for soil carbon management contribute to food security and biodiversity conservation?
This workshop explored how payments for soil carbon management might contribute to food production and biodiversity conservation.
Workshop discussions were informed by a background paper and five commissioned plenary talks that covered the following topics: distribution and management of soil carbon stocks, the policy and economic framework for developing payments for management of soil carbon and links between stocks of soil carbon and the biodiversity of soil and wider ecosystems (see Annexes). Participants reviewed the opportunities and challenges for safeguarding biodiversity and food supply that might be associated with payments for soil carbon management and addressed a range of questions, identified key issues and generated policy guidance and research priorities.
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Rosser, A., et al. (2012) CCI workshop report: ‘How can incentives for soil carbon management contribute to food security and biodiversity conservation?’, Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Cambridge, UK
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How can incentives for soil carbon management contribute to food security and biodiversity conservation?
Management of soil carbon may offer potential for improving agricultural practice and productivity whilst providing co-benefits in terms of climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Agricultural productivity in Africa has remained stagnant over recent decades, and this is generally attributed to a loss of soil fertility and of soil carbon. Increasing soil carbon is thought to…