Best Practices & Agro-Ecology
Cooperatives
Soil Carbon Credits Need a Plot, Not a Factor: Measuring Organic Matter for a Hostile Market
FAO already published a farm-level MRV protocol for soil organic carbon. Raising organic matter is stewardship; selling the tonne into a hostile voluntary market is often capture — auditors, methodologies and issuance have been shown, repeatedly, not to represent real reductions.