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Optimizing land-based interventions for multiple benefits requires the capacity to do the right thing, in the right place, at the right time, at the right scale. Organic carbon is central to healthy productive soils and the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, but it is not easy to manage without effective measurement.
The UNCCD-SPI technical report “Realising the Carbon Benefits of Sustainable Land Management Practices: Guidelines for Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon in the Context of Land Degradation” provides decision guidance for the estimation of soil organic carbon (SOC) in support of appropriate deployment of sustainable land management (SLM) technologies, in order to maintain or increase carbon in the soil and contribute to the achievement of land degradation neutrality (LDN).