This project aims to develop and demonstrate generic tools which quantify the impact of land management and climate scenarios on carbon sequestration in soils. Specific research objectives include

(i) identify and use long-term experimental datasets to systematically evaluate and refine modelling techniques to quantify carbon sequestration potential in tropical soils;

(ii) define, collate and format national-scale soils, climate and land-use datasets and to use them in the development of coupled modelling-GIS tools to estimate soil carbon stocks;

(iii) demonstrate these tools by estimating current soil organic carbon stocks at country-scale (using India, Jordan, Kenya and Amazon-Brazil as case studies) and to compare these estimates with the existing techniques of combining soil mapping units and interpolating point data; and