Increasing the quantity of carbon stored in agricultural soils has the potential to offset emissions of GHGs to the atmosphere.
However, realising this potential is technically challenging when soil carbon stocks are already high as they are in New Zealand, potential changes in soil carbon are small and spatial variability is high.
The current NZAGRC programme has three distinct components:

Testing specific management practices that may increase the long term soil carbon store in field situations
Developing and using models to predict how a range of management practices may influence long and short term soil carbon storage
Identifying those factors that influence the stability of current or newly added soil carbon

 
 
Principal Investigators
Professor Frank Kelliher, AgResearch Dr David Whitehead, Landcare Research
Stories




Prospects for manipulating  soil carbon Release Newsletter - February 2012



Investigating the scope for  increasing soil carbon levels  in New Zealand  Release Newsletter - November 2011 




Is biochar a possible solution for  the mitigation of pastoral GHG  emissions? Release Newsletter - August 2011 





Can we increase soil carbon  in dairy systems? Release Newsletter - December 2010




 
Linkages
AgMardt AgResearch Agriculture & AgriFood, Canada Colorado State University, USA CSIRO Land & Water, Australia Landcare Research Lincoln University Massey University New South Wales DPI, Australia Plant & Food Research Scion University of California, Davis, USA Waikato University