Agriculture wants to make a contribution to climate protection with methods such as midbruch cultivation and agroforstwirtschaft. Under the catchphrase “Carbon Farming”, carbon is to be stored in the ground to prevent it from getting into the atmosphere as greenhouse gas. However, researchers now warn that this promise can be deceptive and that the actual potential of carbon farming is often overestimated.
Through nitrogen -containing fertilizers and the dismantling of CO2-In -saving humus contributes to the global greenhouse gas emissions. As a countermeasure, so -called carbon farming is increasingly propagated. This means a number of procedures that are intended to increase the storage of carbon in the soil – with the aim of binding carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thus contributing to climate protection.
Methods include the so -called midbruch cultivation, in which fields are also planted outside the main accumulation season in order to bind carbon and promote soil life, as well as the preserving soil processing, the
