Beyond Copenhagen: mitigating climate change and achieving food security through soil carbon sequestration

By Rattan Lal. Food Security, 2010

224 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Soil Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. G. Brookes
2. P. Barfoot
3. Pete Smith
4. Olu Ajayi
5. F. Akinnifesi
6. Rattan Lal
7. Gunnar Luderer
8. T. Gomiero

In Ecology

1. G. Brookes
2. P. Barfoot
3. Pete Smith
4. Nils Westling
5. E. Alfredsson
6. M. Karlsson
7. Rattan Lal
8. J. Minx

In Soil Science

1. G. Brookes
2. P. Barfoot
3. Pete Smith
4. Nils Westling
5. E. Alfredsson
6. M. Karlsson
7. Olu Ajayi
8. Rattan Lal

Citations in the corpus

• Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects (2018, background): “Of the 22 articles (Batjes 1998, Benbi 2013, Conant 2011, Henderson et al 2015, Lal 2003b, 2003a, 2004a, 2004c, 2004b, 2010, 2011, 2013, Lassaletta and Aguilera 2015, Lorenz and Lal 2014, Powlson et al 2014, Salati et al 2010, Smith 2012, 2016, Sommer and Bossio 2014, Minasny et al 2017, Metting et…”
• GM crops: global socio-economic and environmental impacts 1996- 2007 (2008, background): “©PG Economics Ltd 2020 197 can cause a decrease in soil stocks, up to 80% of soil gains from NT practices can be maintained when implementing NT with intermittent tillage (Conant et al (2007), Venterea et al (2006)); and • Walia et al (2017) examined in southern Illinois the tillage and fertiliser u”
• Climate policy co-benefits: a review (2020, background): “Lal, Follett, Stewart, and Kimble (2007) estimate the potential of improved farming practices that increase the soil carbon pool and Lal (2010a, 2010b) calculates that atmospheric CO2 levels can be reduced by 50 ppm by the end of the twenty-first century in parallel with producing significant…”
• Managing Soils and Ecosystems for Mitigating Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions and Advancing Global Food Security (2010, background): “The technical potential of soil C sequestration is 0.144 to 0.432 Pg (0.288 Pg) C per year for the United States (Lal et al. 2008), 0.4 to 1.2 Pg (0.8 Pg) C per year in cropland soils of the world (Lal 2004a), and 2.55 to 4.96 Pg (3.76 Pg) C for the terrestrial biosphere (table 2).”
• Evergreen Agriculture: a robust approach to sustainable food security in Africa (2010, background): “Evergreen Agriculture and climate change As Lal (2010) has pointed out, addressing the issue of foodinsecurity and global warming through the sequestration of carbon in soils and the biota, along with payments to resource-poor farmers for the ecosystem services rendered, would be a timely win-win…”
• Green grabs and biochar: Revaluing African soils and farming in the new carbon economy (2012, background): “Funding from carbon trading is argued to be essential to finance the research and development necessary to discover and exploit the full potential of biochar to contribute to climate change mitigation and to enable scale-up to sequester carbon at globally significant levels (Lal 2010).”