Challenges of soil carbon sequestration in the NENA region

Darwish, Talal; Atallah, Thérèse; Fadel, Ali

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-225-2018

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Original research article

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26 Sep 2018

Original research article |

| 26 Sep 2018

Challenges of soil carbon sequestration in the NENA region

Talal Darwish, Thérèse Atallah, and Ali Fadel

Data sets

The digital soil map of the world (DSMW) Version 3.6 FAO http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?id=14116

The 2015 Land Cover map of the NENA countries and territories Global LC http://maps.elie.ucl.ac.be/CCI/viewer/index.php

The Global Soil Organic Carbon Map FAO http://www.fao.org/global-soil-partnership/pillars-action/4-information-and-data/global-soil-organic-carbon-gsoc-map/en/

The regional implementation plan for sustainable management, NENA soils http://www.fao.org/3/a-bl105e.pdf

The SOC stock in topsoil FAO http://www.fao.org/3/a-i8195e.pdf

The Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management FAO http://www.fao.org/3/a-bl813e.pdf

Short summary

This paper is part of the GSP-ITPS effort to produce a global SOC map and update information on C stocks using old and new soil information to assess the potential for enhanced C sequestration in dry land areas of the NENA region. We used the DSMW from FAO-UNESCO (2007), focusing on organic and inorganic content in 0.3 m of topsoil and 0.7 m of subsoil, to discuss the human factors affecting the accumulation of organic C and the fate of inorganic C.