To make agriculture more climate-friendly, carbon farming needs clear rules

By Laura van der Pol, Ph.D Student in Ecology, Colorado State University
Dale Manning, Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
Francesca Cotrufo, Professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University
Megan Machmuller, Research Scientist, Colorado State University

Policymakers want to pay farmers for storing carbon in soil, but there are no uniform rules yet for measuring, reporting or verifying the results. Four scholars offer some ground rules.

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