Soil Carbon Measurement for Payment Schemes: Sampling Density, Cost and Detectable Change

Authors

  • Csongor Erdelyi-Sza Centre for Carbon Monitoring, Bacska Centre for Digital Agriculture, Baja, Hungary Author
  • Dorothea Hinterhuber Department of Soil Science, Traunviertel Centre for Digital Agriculture, Wels, Austria Author
  • Aivar Lokk Centre for Agricultural Policy, Sakala Institute of Agro-Informatics, Viljandi, Estonia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22664572

Keywords:

Soil Carbon Measurement for Payment Schemes; Agro-informatics; Precision agriculture; Evidence synthesis; On-farm technology

Abstract

Soil Carbon Measurement for Payment Schemes has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working farm can
actually use, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current evidence for soil carbon
measurement for payment schemes, covering the methodological, practical, governance and cost angles, with an eye on where
practice has genuinely settled and where farms and advisors are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective,
context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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2023-04-16