Assessment of Soil Organic Carbon Stocks and Change at National Scale (GEF-SOC)

This Global Environmental Facility (GEF) co-financed project has developed a generic system which can quantify the potential impact of land use/management and climate scenarios on sequestration of organic carbon in soils at national and sub-national level. The system has been tested in Amazon-Brazil, Jordan, the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India, and Kenya (flyer).

The GEFSOC Project Technical Report, Soil Carbon Modelling System^© and datasets can be  downloaded from the GEFSOC website; project findings have been published in a special issue of Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.

The GEFSOC project ran from June 2002 - July 2005. Production of project literature, dissemination of results and development of the GEFSOC Modelling System continues   more ... 

The GEFSOC project was implemented by UNEP and coordinated by The University of Reading (UK). It involved national scientists in Brazil, India, Jordan and Kenya working closely with modellers and data management groups in the United Kingdom, Austria, France, the Netherlands, and the USA. ISRIC's work in the project was funded by VROM.   

                      
                       The GEFSOC project team (Nairobi workshop, October 2003)
  
  
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