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Carbon Farming: A Comprehensive Guide

With carbon farming, agriculture ceases to be part of the climate problem and becomes a critical part of the solution. Agriculture is rightly blamed as a major culprit of our climate crisis. But in this groundbreaking new book, Eric Toensmeier argues that agriculture—specifically, the subset of practices known as “carbon farming”—can, and should be, a linchpin of a global climate solutions platform.

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Carbon Farming: A Comprehensive Guide

With carbon farming, agriculture ceases to be part of the climate problem and becomes a critical part of the solution. Agriculture is rightly blamed as a major culprit of our climate crisis. But in this groundbreaking new book, Eric Toensmeier argues that agriculture—specifically, the subset of practices known as “carbon farming”—can, and should be, a linchpin of a global climate solutions platform.

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CONTENTS

Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Part 1: The Big Idea


1: Climate Realities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2: Agricultural Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation . . . 19
3: Carbon Sequestration Potentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
4: Agroforestry and Perennial Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
5: A Multifunctional Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Part 2: A Global Toolkit of Practices and Species


6: Annual Cropping Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
7: Livestock Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
8: Perennial Cropping Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
9: Additional Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
10: Introduction to Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Part 3: Perennial Staple Crops


11: Introduction to Perennial Staple Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
12: Basic Starch Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
13: Balanced Carbohydrate Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
14: Protein Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
15: Protein-Oil Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
16: Edible Oil Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
17: Sugar Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Part 4: Perennial Industrial Crops


18: Industrial Crops: Materials, Chemicals, and Energy . . . . . 229
19: Biomass Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
20: Industrial Starch Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
21: Industrial Oil Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
22: Hydrocarbon Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
23: Fiber Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
24: Other Industrial Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Part 5: Road Map to Implementation


25: A Three-Point Plan to Scale Up Carbon Farming . . . . . . . 313
26: Support Farmers and Farming Organizations
to Make the Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
27: Effectively Finance Carbon Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
28: Remove National and International Policy Barriers . . . . . 333
29: Strategic Next Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Appendix A: Global Species Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . 347


Appendix B: Clean Dry Weight Yield Calculations . . . . 383
Appendix C: Carbon Sequestration Rates . . . . . . . . 389
Appendix D: Changes in Latin Names . . . . . . . . . . 393

Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395


Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

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