December 10, 2018 at 04:48PM IPCC to take greater account of carbon storage by agroforestry systems

Agroforestry systems are known to store more carbon than agricultural plots cultivated in a conventional way. However, to date, agroforestry has not been taken into account effectively in the carbon accounting system established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Researchers from CIRAD and the FAO recently conducted a literature review that enabled them to establish coefficients for carbon storage in the soil and aboveground and belowground biomass of different agroforestry systems. The new data will be taken into account in the improved 2006 IPCC National GHG Inventory Guidelines. This work is published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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