[HTML][HTML] Soil carbon 4 per mille

B Minasny, BP Malone, AB McBratney, DA Angers… - Geoderma, 2017 - Elsevier
The '4 per mille Soils for Food Security and Climate'was launched at the COP21 with an
aspiration to increase global soil organic matter stocks by 4 per 1000 (or 0.4%) per year as a …

Precision agriculture for resource use efficiency in smallholder farming systems in sub-saharan africa: A systematic review

CM Onyango, JM Nyaga, J Wetterlind, M Söderström… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Opportunities exist for adoption of precision agriculture technologies in all parts of the world.
The form of precision agriculture may vary from region to region depending on technologies …

Statistics, scoring functions, and regional analysis of a comprehensive soil health database

AK Fine, HM van Es… - Soil Science Society of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas Summary statistics were developed from a robust multiregional soil health (SH)
dataset. Active carbon, organic matter, and penetration resistance were most useful soil …

Tuning support vector machines regression models improves prediction accuracy of soil properties in MIR spectroscopy

L Deiss, AJ Margenot, SW Culman, MS Demyan - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Estimating soil properties in diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy in
the mid-infrared region (mid-DRIFTS) uses statistical modeling (chemometrics) to predict soil …

Drivers of farmer-managed natural regeneration in the Sahel. Lessons for restoration

M Lohbeck, P Albers, LE Boels, F Bongers, S Morel… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) is being promoted for restoration beyond its
original range in the Sahel. FMNR involves farmers selecting and managing natural …

[HTML][HTML] Continental-scale controls on soil organic carbon across sub-Saharan Africa

SF von Fromm, AM Hoyt, M Lange, GE Acquah… - Soil, 2021 - soil.copernicus.org
Soil organic carbon (SOC) stabilization and destabilization has been studied intensively.
Yet, the factors which control SOC content across scales remain unclear. Earlier studies …

Impacts of COVID-19 on diverse farm systems in Tanzania and South Africa

HG Tripathi, HE Smith, SM Sait, SM Sallu, S Whitfield… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Emerging information on the interactions between the COVID-19 pandemic and global food
systems have highlighted how the pandemic is accentuating food crises across Africa. Less …

Innovation systems and affordances in climate smart agriculture

HE Smith, SM Sallu, S Whitfield… - Journal of Rural …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is significant international investment and effort in the development, piloting and
upscaling of climate smart agriculture (CSA), with particular emphasis on delivering benefits …

Role of environmental variables in the spatial distribution of soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and C: N ratio from the northeastern coastal agroecosystems in China

S Wang, K Adhikari, Q Wang, X **, H Li - Ecological indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) influence physical, chemical and
biological properties and process in soils that determine soil fertility and enhance or …

Controls on timescales of soil organic carbon persistence across sub‐saharan africa

SF Von Fromm, S Doetterl, BM Butler… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Given the importance of soil for the global carbon cycle, it is essential to understand not only
how much carbon soil stores but also how long this carbon persists. Previous studies have …