Articles
Some articles that give further understanding to the issues around farming and soil carbon
Carbon conscious farmers by Jonathan Smith, FCT
Carbon farming in Portugal by David Crespo
A farmers guide to increasing soil organic carbon under pasture by New South Wales Government
Australian Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme by Christine Jones
Sort out your soil - a comprehensive practical guide to green manures by Cotswold Seeds
Reduced Tillage and Green Manures by Tillman-ORG project
The financial case for investing time and effort in carbon sequestration by AR Carbon
Theme of the month: Soil Carbon by FCT
Chappell,A., Baldock, J., Sanderman, J. (2015) The global significance of omitting soil erosion from soil organic carbon cycling schemes, Nature climate change, DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2829
How to sequester more carbon on your holding - this is a comprehensive write up with the links to the presentations from a session at the Organic Producers conference in January 2016.
The '4 per 1000' initiative - globl initiative which demonstrates that agriculture, and in particular agricultural soils can play a crucial role in food security and climate change.
Links
Green manures/cover crops
Soils
Soil Carbon on your farm - pages from FCT
Low Carbon Farming project from Soil Association (archive pages)
European Climate Change Programme (ECCP) Working Group Sinks Related to Agricultural Soils - This final report covers the potential that carbon sequestration has in agricultural soils and its significance in contributing to climate change mitigation.
Agroforestry
Silvopastoral Agroforestry Toolbox
Minimum tillage
Cover crops tested by BASE members in France
Soil & Cover cropping international magazine
BASE UK (Biodiversity, Agriculture, Soils and Environment) and BASE France
Reduced tillage in organic systems
Carbon sequestration
Carbon sequestration - the science from FCT Toolkit
