The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) has released a new Research Report Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils: Addressing Canada’s Climate Change Targets.

This CAPI report affirms that Canada can meet the global 4x1000 challenge for soil organic carbon, and that there are a range of approaches through which it can do so. It also highlights a number of challenges, based on agronomic, economic and policy-related stumbling blocks related to this goal.

The report, which was written by CAPI Distinguished Fellow Dr. Susan Wood-Bohm lays out the essential aspects of how carbon is sequestered in agricultural soils, and goes on to ask, “how much carbon can agricultural soils in Canada sequester?”

The release draws upon a webinar the Policy Institute held on February 16 with Dr. Wood-Bohm and CAPI Doctoral Fellow Dr. Marie-Élise Samson, where they discussed the evolving and dynamic concept of ‘soil health’ within a Canadian context, as well as the role that healthy soils and innovative agricultural practices have on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change. 

For the entire report, link here: https://bit.ly/3Kc7QAx

Source:  Canadian Agri-Food Policy institute April 22, 2022 news release