Abstract
About 40% of global habitable land area is used for agricultural-related activities. As farming practices can influence soil carbon stocks and the ability of the land to sequester carbon, there has been a growing interest in monitoring carbon fluxes and sequestration among land uses to mitigate atmospheric carbon emission. However, the lack of valuable benchmarking data on soil organic carbon (SOC) changes and carbon hotspots, due partly to a lack of regular monitoring, has been slow to develop and provide farmers and landowners with necessary data to improve their agricultural land management. To enhance and maintain soil carbon stocks, regular on-farm precision monitoring solutions are developing, such as modern laboratory, near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and remote-sensing analysis. This chapter provides a brief insight on the effects of land-use change and the importance of on-farm monitoring of SOC to support land management practices with the current precision monitoring techniques.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Organic Farming |
| Editors | L. P. Awasthi |
| Publisher | CABI |
| Pages | 154–162 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-80062-684-3, 978-1-80062-685-0 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-80062-683-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 21 Aug 2025 |