Soils as carbon stores and sinks: expectations, patterns, processes, and prospects of transitions

M van Noordwijk, E Aynekulu, R Hijbeek… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The few percent of soil organic carbon (SOC) among mineral components form the interface
of climate, plant growth, soil biological processes, physical transport infrastructure, and …

[HTML][HTML] Restoring soil quality to mitigate soil degradation

R Lal - Sustainability, 2015 - mdpi.com
Feeding the world population, 7.3 billion in 2015 and projected to increase to 9.5 billion by
2050, necessitates an increase in agricultural production of~ 70% between 2005 and 2050 …

Soil microbial biomass carbon stock and its relation with climatic and other environmental factors in forest ecosystems: A review

S Das, S Deb, SS Sahoo, UK Sahoo - Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil Microbial biomass is soil organic matter's living mass. Half of the microbial biomass is in
the uppermost (15 cm) soil, which stores< 4% organic matter, plays a major role in …

[HTML][HTML] Crops for carbon farming

C Jansson, C Faiola, A Wingler, XG Zhu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Agricultural cropping systems and pasture comprise one third of the world's arable land and
have the potential to draw down a considerable amount of atmospheric CO2 for storage as …

Price dispersion in farmland markets: what is the role of asymmetric information?

S Seifert, C Kahle, S Hüttel - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article investigates the role played by information, search, and bargaining cost in
agricultural land markets to explain price dispersion. Based on a hedonic model under …

The economics of soil health

AW Stevens - Food Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil health plays an important role in agricultural productivity, food quality, environmental
resiliency, and ecosystem sustainability. Consequently, there is great interest from …

Soil health and grain yield impacts of climate resilient agriculture projects: Evidence from southern Malawi

FO Amadu, PE McNamara, KE Davis - Agricultural systems, 2021 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Climate resilient agriculture (CRA) projects like watershed restoration efforts can
enhance agricultural systems' resilience to climate change and extreme weather shocks by …

[HTML][HTML] Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity

J Berazneva, A Maertens, W Mhango… - Journal of Development …, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine the relationship between soil heterogeneity and investment in learning among
farmers in Malawi using an experimental approach. Soil heterogeneity may both impede …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies of Climate Change Mitigation in Agriculture Plant Production—A Critical Review

CA Kwiatkowski, M Pawłowska, E Harasim… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Agriculture is the second-highest, after energy use, source of greenhouse gas emissions,
which are released from soils and animal digestion processes and as a result of energy …

The long-term impact of the Vietnam War on agricultural productivity

S Appau, SA Churchill, R Smyth, TA Trinh - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
We present causal evidence of the long-term effects of the Vietnam War on household
agricultural productivity. Using bombing intensity data and data on the intensity of Agent …