Can conservation agriculture improve soil quality and sequester carbon in the short term for dryland smallholders in the developing world?
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2011
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Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
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This article provides an overview of the Soils Cross-Cutting Research Activity (CCRA) within the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM CRSP). Through the Soils CCRA, a soil library compiling soil test results from all SANREM CRSP project sites (Haiti, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ghana, Mali, Lesotho, Mozambique, Uganda, Kenya, India, Nepal, Cambodia, and the Philippines) will be created. Samples will be tested on the basis of soil fertility, soil organic carbon content (SOC), and particulate organic matter (POM).
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Carbon sequestration, Conservation agriculture, Semiarid zones, Arid zones, Climate control, Soil organic matter, Smallholders, SANREM CRSP, soil organic carbon content, SOC, Conservation Agriculture Production Systems, CAPS, Haiti, Bolivia, Ecuador, Ghana, Mali, Lesotho, Mozambique, Uganda, Kenya, India, Nepal, Cambodia, The Philippines, Ecosystem Field Scale