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28th Conference of the Parties (COP28)
https://carbon.osu.edu/lal-carbon-center-newsletter-winter-2024/28th-conference-parties-cop28
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — 10 th December 2023 Dr. Lal traveled to Dubai in December in order to attend COP28 (The 28th Conference of the Parties), which is the formal meeting of the UNFCCC parties to work together on solutions to tackle climate change ...
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Ohio State Professor Rattan Lal Aims to Eliminate Hunger While Helping the Environment
Originally published in Columbus Monthly. Article available here. By Randy Edwards At a tender age, Rattan Lal learned harsh lessons about the value of land and the often-heartbreaking challenge of coaxing food from the soil. ...
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Soil Health Act and The Farm Bill 2024
https://carbon.osu.edu/lal-carbon-center-newsletter-summer-2023/soil-health-act-and-farm-bill-2024
From The Desk of Rattan Lal Soil Health Act and The Farm Bill 2024 30th June 2023 Implementation of environment policy act is a historical tradition in the U.S.A. Existing Acts and Resolution in favor of environmental improvement include: The Clean Water ...
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IICA: AGRIMAN AGventures
https://carbon.osu.edu/publications/learn-more-about-soil-carbon/iica-agriman-agventures
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is pleased to produce AGRIMAN AGventures comics, p roduced by WHYFarm, written by Jeunanne Alkins, and illustrated by Crea Ideias. F eaturing AGRIMAN and PhotosyntheSista, AGRIMAN AGvent ...
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Net-Zero Emission Agriculture
https://carbon.osu.edu/sloan-net-zero
To research the development and evaluation of pathways to net-zero emission agriculture and cropping systems Sponsor: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Principle Investigators: Laura Lindsey (Ohio State University), Klaus Lorenz (Ohio State University), Scott ...
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Herbert W. Hoover Foundation
https://carbon.osu.edu/stark-sustainable-soils-initiative/herbert-w-hoover-foundation
Note from Kaitlyn Cowley, Ohio Operations Associate, Herbert W. Hoover Foundation The Herbert W. Hoover Foundation is proud to be supporting C-MASC and the cutting-edge, world-changing science that comes from it. As a foundation, we are continuously lo ...
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Kent State Collaboration
https://carbon.osu.edu/kent-state
These projects are conducted in parallel and in collaboration with the Stark Sustainable Soils Initiative, each funded by separate grants from the Herbert W. Hoover Foundation as part of their science area of focus. Cover crop impacts on soil carbon inf ...
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Point: Cover crops do not increase soil organic carbon stocks as much as has been claimed: What is the way forward?
When compared to virgin land (forest and grassland), croplands store significantly lower amounts of organic carbon (OC), mainly as a result of soil tillage, and de- creased plant inputs to the soil over the whole year. Doubts have been expressed over how ...
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Counterpoint: Cover crops do increase soil organic carbon stocks—A critical comment on Chaplot and Smith (2023)
Recently, Chaplot and Smith (2023) challenged the notion, that cover crops constitute an effective option to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks. As much as we agree with the authors' position on the need for analytical rigour, we strongly ques ...
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Soil, soul, spirituality, and stewardship
https://carbon.osu.edu/digest-3/soil-soul-spirituality-and-stewardship
This article is available in full at the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation free of charge. Soil, the most basic among all natural resources and essential to provisioning of numerous ecosystem services (ESs) that are critical for human well-being a ...