The '4 per mille Soils for Food Security and Climate'was launched at the COP21 with an
aspiration to increase global soil organic matter stocks by 4 per 1000 (or 0.4%) per year as a …

There is growing international interest in better managing soils to increase soil organic
carbon (SOC) content to contribute to climate change mitigation, to enhance resilience to …

The importance of building/maintaining soil carbon, for soil health and CO2 mitigation, is of
increasing interest to a wide audience, including policymakers, NGOs and land managers …

Abstract Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in September 2015
aim to end hunger and poverty, to protect the Planet, and to ensure peace and prosperity for …

The biogeochemistry of soil organic matter (SOM), as a highly complex and dynamic soil
property, is of vital importance for the health and ecological functioning of ecosystems …

There is a need to update soil maps and monitor soil organic carbon (SOC) in the upper
horizons or plough layer for enabling decision support and land management, while …

Spatially resolved estimates of change in soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks are necessary for
supporting national and international policies aimed at achieving land degradation neutrality …

SOC is the most important indicator of soil fertility and monitoring its space-time changes is a
prerequisite to establish strategies to reduce soil loss and preserve its quality. Here we …

Using soil organic carbon (SOC) to generate carbon offsets requires reliably quantifying
SOC sequestration. However, accuracy of SOC measurement is limited by inherent spatial …

In the past decade, substantial progress has been made in model-based optimization of
sampling designs for mapping. This paper is an update of the overview of sampling designs …