Enabling food security by verifying agricultural carbon

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Mitigation win-win

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Communicating soil carbon science to farmers: Incorporating credibility, salience and legitimacy

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Enhanced agricultural carbon sinks provide benefits for farmers and the climate

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Mapping future soil carbon change and its uncertainty in croplands using simple surrogates of a complex farming system model

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Ethiopian agriculture has greater potential for carbon sequestration than previously estimated

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Long term soil carbon sequestration potential of smallholder croplands in southern Ethiopia with DAYCENT model

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Perennial monocropping of khat decreased soil carbon and nitrogen relative to multistrata agroforestry and natural forest in southeastern Ethiopia

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A farm level approach to explore farm gross margin effects of soil organic carbon management

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Soil carbon sequestration is a climate stabilization wedge: Comments on Sommer and Bossio (2014)

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Paddy fields can gain high productivity with low net global warming potential by utilizing green manure

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Soil, vine, climate change; the challenge of predicting soil carbon changes and greenhouse gas emissions in vineyards and is the 4 per 1000 goal realistic?

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Manure increases soil organic carbon most when allocated to annual cropping

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Sorption site competition determines phosphorus availability of agrifood residues

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Carbon farming: Ecosystem services and its potential in achieving UN sustainable development goals

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CARBON CREDITS: A NEED FOR CLIMATE AND FOOD SECURITY

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