No-till systems restore soil organic carbon stock in Brazilian biomes and contribute to the climate solution
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Autor(es)João Carlos de Moraes Sá, Rattan Lal, Klaus Lorenz, Yadunath Bajgai, Carla Gavilan, Manan Kapoor, Ademir De Oliveira Ferreira, Clever Briedis, Thiago Massao Inagaki, Lutecia Beatriz Canalli, Daniel Ruiz Potma Gonçalves, Jeankleber Bortoluzzi
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Instituição do Autor correspondenteCFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
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Revista e nºScience of the Total Environment, n.º 977
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Ano2025
The global challenge is to develop a food production system that can simultaneously prevent deforestationThe global challenge is to develop a food production system that can simultaneously prevent deforestation, meet the food needs of 9.8 billion people by 2050, and make agriculture part of the solution to mitigating anthropogenic climate change. Food production is responsible for approximately 25 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, (Crippa et al., 2021) and increasing to ≈33 % when all agricultural products are considered (Poore and Nemecek, 2018).
No-till systems grounded in the principles of conservation agriculture can restore the soil organic carbon (SOC) stock and environmental sustainability. Here, we assessed the SOC stocks to 1-m depth for three land-uses.