Enabling food security by verifying agricultural carbon

H. Kahiluoto; P. Smith; D. Moran; J. E. Olesen

doi:10.1038/nclimate2209

Enabling food security by verifying agricultural carbon

H. Kahiluoto^*, P. Smith, D. Moran, J. E. Olesen

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Aberdeen Centre For Environmental Sustainability

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Abstract

Rewarding smallholders for sequestering carbon in agricultural land can improve food security while mitigating climate change. Verification of carbon offsets in food-insecure regions is possible and achievable through rigorously controlled monitoring

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	309-311
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	4
Issue number	5
Early online date	25 Apr 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2209
Publication status	Published - May 2014

Bibliographical note

J.E.O., P.S. and D.M. acknowledge support from the SmartSOIL EU FP7 project (grant number 289694), D.M. also from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network and H.K. from the SOILMAN (decision number 270106) and AlterCLIMA (decision number 127405) projects of the Academy of Finland.

Keywords

soil organic-matter
climate-change
mitigation
sequestration
adaptation
management
impacts

UN SDGs

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Enabling food security by verifying agricultural carbon

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