With carbon farming, agriculture ceases to be part of the climate
problem and becomes a critical part of the solution "This book is
the toolkit for making the soil itself a sponge for carbon. It's a
powerful vision."-Bill McKibben "The Carbon Farming Solution is a
book we will look back upon decades from now and wonder why
something so critically relevant could have been so overlooked
until that time. . . . [It] describes the foundation of the future
of civilization."-Paul Hawken In this groundbreaking book, Eric
Toensmeier argues that agriculture-specifically, the subset of
practices known as "carbon farming"-can, and should be, a linchpin
of a global climate solutions platform. Carbon farming is a suite
of agricultural practices and crops that sequester carbon in the
soil and in above-ground biomass. Combined with a massive reduction
in fossil fuel emissions-and in concert with adaptation strategies
to our changing environment- carbon farming has the potential to
bring us back from the brink of disaster and return our atmosphere
to the "magic number" of 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide.
Toensmeier's book is the first to bring together these powerful
strategies in one place. Includes in-depth analysis of the
available research. Carbon farming can take many forms. The
simplest practices involve modifications to annual crop production.
Although many of these modifications have relatively low
sequestration potential, they are widely applicable and easily
adopted, and thus have excellent potential to mitigate climate
change if practiced on a global scale. Likewise, grazing systems
such as silvopasture are easily replicable, don't require
significant changes to human diet, and-given the amount of
agricultural land worldwide that is devoted to pasture-can be
important strategies in the carbon farming arsenal. But by far,
agroforestry practices and perennial crops present the best
opportunities for sequestration. While many of these systems are
challenging to establish and manage, and would require us to change
our diets to new and largely unfamiliar perennial crops, they also
offer huge potential that has been almost entirely ignored by
climate crusaders. Many of these carbon farming practices are
already implemented globally on a scale of millions of hectares.
These are not minor or marginal efforts, but win-win solutions that
provide food, fodder, and feedstocks while fostering community
self-reliance, creating jobs, protecting biodiversity, and
repairing degraded land-all while sequestering carbon, reducing
emissions, and ultimately contributing to a climate that will
remain amenable to human civilization. Just as importantly to a
livable future, these crops and practices can contribute to broader
social goals such as women's empowerment, food sovereignty, and
climate justice. The Carbon Farming Solution is-at its root-a
toolkit and the most complete collection of climate-friendly crops
and practices currently available. With this toolkit, farmers,
communities, and governments large and small, can successfully
launch carbon farming projects with the most appropriate crops and
practices to their climate, locale, and socioeconomic needs.
Toensmeier's ultimate goal is to place carbon farming firmly in the
center of the climate solutions platform, alongside clean solar and
wind energy. With The Carbon Farming Solution, Toensmeier wants to
change the discussion, impact policy decisions, and steer
mitigation funds to the research, projects, and people around the
world who envision a future where agriculture becomes the
protagonist in this fraught, urgent, and unprecedented drama of our
time. Citizens, farmers, and funders will be inspired to use the
tools presented in this important book to transform degraded lands
around the world into productive carbon-storing landscapes.
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