Agriculture can make significant contributions to climate change mitigation by (a) increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) sinks, (b) reducing GHG emissions, and (c) off-setting fossil fuel by promoting biofuels. The latter has the potential to counter-balance fossil fuel emissions to some degree, but the overall impact is still uncertain compared to emissions of non-CO2 GHGs, which are likely to increase as production systems intensify. Agricultural lands also remove CH4 from the atmosphere by oxidation, though less than forestlands (Tate et al. 2006; Verchot et al. 2000), but this effect is small compared to other GHG fluxes (Smith 2004). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Dumanski, J., Desjardins, R. L., Lal, R., De Freitas, P. L., Gerber, P., Steinfeld, H., … Rosegrant, M. (2010). Strategies and economies for greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture. In Applied Agrometeorology (pp. 983–988). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74698-0_115
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