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Mitigation of Climate Change Through Carbon Farming

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There is still a lot of disagreement concerning the nature, substance, and, most critically, effect of the policy initiatives that are needed to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon farming is a viable technique for producing food and other products in a more sustainable manner. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), livestock emissions account for 24% of world greenhouse gas (GHG) productions, with entire worldwide livestock emissions of 7.1 gigatons of CO2 equivalent per year accounting for 14.5% of overall human-caused GHG emissions. This chapter explains the present condition of climate change mitigation in developing nations using carbon farming and the ways these countries can adopt for increasing carbon sequestration. This chapter also discusses carbon farming, a climate-smart agriculture technique that uses plants to trap and store atmospheric carbon dioxide in soil, along with carbon sequestration. Forestry carbon sequestration, specifically by prevented deforestation, is a potential, cost-effective alternative for mitigating changing climate. We need to improve our biophysical knowledge about carbon farming co-benefits, predict the economic impacts of employing multiple strategies and policy incentives, and develop the associated integrated models to estimate the full costs and benefits of agricultural GHG mitigation to farmers and the rest of society. This can be achieved through joining near-real-time field measurements and offline, modeling, computing networks, weather data, and satellite imagery.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari, Pakistan

    Samra Tariq, Muhammad Mubeen, Sajjad Hussain, Mazhar Ali & Hafiz Muhammad Rashad Javeed

  2. Department of Agronomy, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan

    Hafiz Mohkum Hammad

  3. International Center for Climate Change, Food Security and Sustainability (ICCFS) & Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Bahawalpur, Pakistan

    Wajid Nasim Jatoi

  4. Department of Agricultural Engineering, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

    Hafiz Umar Farid

  5. Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt

    Ayman EL Sabagh

  6. Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Siirt University, Siirt, Turkey

    Ayman EL Sabagh

  7. Department of Agronomy, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

    Shah Fahad

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    Wajid Nasim Jatoi

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus, Pakistan

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  3. Department of Environmental Science, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

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  4. Global Change Impact Studies Centre, Ministry of Climate Change, Islamabad, Pakistan

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  5. Department of Agronomy, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan

    Shah Fahad

  6. Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK

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Tariq, S. et al. (2023). Mitigation of Climate Change Through Carbon Farming. In: Jatoi, W.N., Mubeen, M., Hashmi, M.Z., Ali, S., Fahad, S., Mahmood, K. (eds) Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26692-8_22

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