Mr Carbon Farming

Abstract

Carbon farming is the process of managing the land to sequester carbon. Farming techniques that can facilitate carbon sequestration include organic farming and biodynamic farming. This article introduces Australia's 'Mr Carbon Farming', Michael Kiely. He co-founded Australia’s Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming in February 2006. The Carbon Coalition lobbies for the right of Australian landholders to trade, on an emissions offset market, the credits that they can earn by sequestering carbon in their soils. Kiely asks: is soil carbon the new cash crop? He speaks with the zeal of an evangelist and calls himself a ‘carbon farmer’. According to Kiely: “Carbon farming is not a new practice. It is a new way to describe a collection of techniques which can increase soil organic carbon in agricultural land ... It’s about changing the way we farm ”. Show more