This review article aims to acknowledge the multifaceted functions of soil, and given its
status as the largest terrestrial carbon store, to reaffirm its previously established importance …

Rapid turnover of organic matter leads to a low efficiency of organic fertilizers applied to
increase and sequester C in soils of the humid tropics. Charcoal was reported to be …

The most recent IPCC assessment has shown an important role for negative emissions
technologies (NETs) in limiting global warming to 2 C cost-effectively. However, a bottom-up …

Brazil has extensive forests and savannas on deep weathered soils and plays a key role in
the discussions about carbon sequestration, but the distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) …

The application of bio-char (charcoal or biomass-derived black carbon (C)) to soil is
proposed as a novel approach to establish a significant, long-term, sink for atmospheric …

There is a nexus of seven inter-linked global existential challenges; Soil Security and Food
Security are two of these. The established concept of Food Security is well defined and …

Abstract Drylands occupy 6.15 billion hectares (Bha) or 47.2% of the world's land area. Of
this, 3.5 to 4.0 Bha (57%–65%) are either desertified or prone to desertification. Despite the …

Routine soil surveys for estimating the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool account for a soil
depth of about 1 m. Deeper soil horizons, however, may have a high capacity to sequester …

Terra Preta soils of central Amazonia exhibit approximately three times more soil organic
matter, nitrogen and phosphorus and 70 times more charcoal compared to adjacent infertile …

Biomass currently accounts for about fifteen per cent of global primary energy consumption
and is playing an increasingly important role in the face of climate change, energy and food …