Soil Organic Carbon and Feeding the Future Basic Soil Processes

1. Is there evidence for significant tillage-induced soil organic C sequestration below the plow layer?

Alan J. Franzluebbers

2. Managing Soil Organic Carbon for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security

You Jin Kim, Ji Young Jung, and Umakant Mishra

3. Soil management, organic matter, and human nutrition

Stephen A. Wood and Isabela Overturf

4. Building Bridges between Natural Nutrient Sources and Fertilizers for Soil Health and Sustainable Food Security

B. L. Bumb, J. C. Katyal and U. Singh

5. Soil Organic Matter and Nutrient Availability

Sjoerd W. Duiker

6. Soil Organic Matter and Microorganisms in Management Systems for Food and Feedstock Production

Nicola Lorenza, Klaus E. Lorenza, and Richard P. Dicka

7. Carbon sequestration in Productive Land Use Systems in the Peruvian Amazon

Julio Alegre, Ruby Vega, Ceila Lao et al.

8. Soil Organic Matter stocks and content – Critical Policy Issues?

C. Rumpel and A. Chabbi

9. Modelling Soil Organic Carbon: Implications for Soil Organic Matter Management in the Indian Himalayan Region

Amitabha Nath, Arun Jyoti Nath, Rajiv Pandey et al.

10. Managing Soil Organic Matter under Dryland Farming Systems for Climate Change Adaptation and Sustaining Agriculture Productivity

Srinivasarao, Sumanta Kundu, S Rakesh et al.

11. Managing Soil Organic Matter for Alleviating Drought Stress in Dryland Farming in North American Great Plains

Wilma Trujillo, Steve J. Fonte, Meagan E. Schipanski et al.

12. Advances in Soil Health

Kathleen M. Bridges, Heather Neikirk, and Rattan Lal

13. Soil organic carbon sequestration and turnover in semi-arid tropics and subtropics in relation to agronomic yield and sustainability

Ram C Dalal and Somasundaram Jayaraman

Biography

Rattan Lal, PhD, is Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center at The Ohio State University, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Iceland and IARI, New Delhi. He was President of the WASWAC (1987-1990), ISTRO (1988-1991), SSSA (2006-2008), and the IUSS (2017-2018). He researches soil C sequestration, conservation agriculture, soil health, soil erosion and C dynamics, soil structure, eco-intensification, soil restoration, and soils of the tropics. He has authored 1,020 journal articles, authored/edited more than 100 books, mentored 370 researchers, has h-index of 163, and total citations of 120,719. In a Stanford study (Ioannidis et al. 2019, 2020), he is ranked #111 globally among world’s top 2% of scientists, and #1 among scientists in Agronomy & Agriculture. Reuter Thompson ranked him #391 among the top 1000 climatologists. He holds IICA’s Chair in Soil Science and Goodwill Ambassador in Sustainable Development. He is a member of the 2021 U.N. Food System Summit Science Committee and Action Track 3. He received the 2018 GCHERA World Agriculture Prize, 2018 Glinka World Soil Prize, 2019 Japan Prize, 2019 IFFCO Award, 2020 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award, the 2020 World Food Prize, and the 2021 Padma Shri Award, India.