Beyond Copenhagen: Mitigating climate change and achieving food security through soil carbon sequestration

Food Security

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-177

  Lal, Rattan ^a  

^a Carbon Management and Sequestration Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon trading; Climate change; Food security; Organic matter management; Soil carbon sequestration

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EMISSIONS TRADING; FOOD SECURITY; PEAT SOIL; SOIL CARBON; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

COPENHAGEN [(CTY) HOVEDSTADEN]; DENMARK; HOVEDSTADEN;

EID: 77952585410     PISSN: 18764517     EISSN: 18764525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-010-0060-9     Document Type: Article

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