Carbon Farming: An Expository, Inter-Disciplinary Survey
V. Priyanka, Geetha Charan, Rohit P. Suresh, Thandava Sunkara, Manojkumar Patil, Kartik Sagar, Aashman Trivedi, K. Soumya, Subir Paul, Parashuram Hadimani, Ganesh Babu, Ravi Trivedi, Yadati Narahari

TL;DR
This survey provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of carbon farming practices, their scientific foundations, market mechanisms, and policy considerations to promote climate mitigation and sustainable agriculture.
Contribution
It is the first unified, detailed survey integrating insights from multiple disciplines to guide practitioners, policymakers, and researchers in carbon farming deployment.
Findings
Carbon farming can offset up to 50% of India's transport emissions.
The survey identifies best practices and trade-offs in carbon sequestration.
It reviews MRV frameworks and digital technologies for carbon accounting.
Abstract
Carbon farming is the collection of agricultural best practices specifically designed to maximize the capture and long-term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide in soils and plant biomass, while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions from cultivation practices. Carbon farming can be viewed as a promising pathway to simultaneously address climate change mitigation, soil degradation, and farmer welfare. For example, if the entire agricultural cropland in India practices carbon farming, this will spectacularly offset about 50% of emissions from the country's annual transport-sector emissions. However, practical deployment of carbon farming is constrained by scientific challenges, inherent complexity, and fragmented understanding across disciplines. This inter-disciplinary, expository survey offers the first unified treatment of carbon farming for practitioners, policymakers, and…
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