The more carbon soil withholds, the more fertile that land becomes. So to increase crop yields while curbing carbon emissions, some farmers are turning to an agricultural practice called “carbon farming” to get the most out of their land. Carbon farming uses suites of crops and other practices that sequester carbon while meeting human needs, and it could play a crucial role in preventing catastrophic climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere and safely storing it in soils and perennial vegetation. In the cloud forest region of Veracruz, Mexico, one farm is planting thousands of native trees within the area and allowing land to regenerate naturally to sequester massive amounts of carbon as well as restore an area plagued by deforestation. As a result, the agricultural lands are producing more while removing carbon from the atmosphere. Given that two-thirds of global farmland is pasture where carbon farming is possible, there is great potential to scale up these practices to mitigate climate change.
Carbon farming: Growing solutions for climate change
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