The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) and Breakthrough Strategies and Solutions, LLC, have jointly published Carbon Sequestration Potential on Agricultural Lands: A Review of Current Science and Available Practices, a paper that explores how soil carbon is sequestered, the state of soil carbon research, and the debate on its potential.
The paper begins by providing an introduction to soil carbon and the process of sequestration. It then explores research findings on soil carbon saturation and the impacts of fertilizers on soil carbon, before providing an analysis of agricultural activities and systems that can sequester carbon. The paper offers a set of recommendations for ongoing research and highlights the many co-benefits of increasing soil carbon. The full paper is available for download from NSAC.