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Regenerative agriculture (RA) offers a transformative pathway to tackle climate change, restore biodiversity, and strengthen rural economies. Integrating RA practices with carbon credit mechanisms provides strong financial incentives to accelerate widespread adoption. Key strategies such as conservation agriculture, agroforestry, cover cropping, crop rotation, livestock integration, and precision resource management significantly improve soil carbon sequestration, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and build climate-resilient farming systems. Strengthening Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) frameworks, along with bundling carbon credits with yield insurance and productivity gains, can further offer a robust approach to scaling adoption, particularly among smallholder farmers. In the countries from the Global South, there is an urgent need to develop dedicated and tailored methodologies for measuring and verifying carbon outcomes, specifically from RA practices. Research communities must prioritize creating standardized protocols, validated through pilot projects implemented on farmers’ fields, and demonstrating real-world feasibility and tangible benefits will build trust and drive adoption. Adopting technological innovations, including artificial intelligence, geo-spatial analytics, Internet of Things (IoT)-based soil sensing, mobile applications, and real-time carbon mapping, enables accurate measurement, monitoring, and verification of carbon dynamics. Agro-industries can support this transition through insulating mechanisms, providing farmers with more stable and predictable markets compared to the often-volatile voluntary carbon markets. Furthermore, linking carbon credits with associated ecosystem services such as water conservation, soil fertility improvement, and biodiversity enhancement can increase the quality and market value of credits, attracting premium prices nationally and internationally. Aligning financial incentives with ecological restoration firmly establishes RA as a pivotal strategy for achieving carbon neutrality, fostering sustainable food systems, and building resilient agroecological landscapes.

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Policies and Technological Intervention for Regenerative Agriculture and Carbon Credits to Achieve Carbon-Negative Agriculture

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    2026年

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  • K. Srikanth Reddy,
  • G. Sreeja Reddy,
  • C. M. Parihar,
  • Panneerselvam Peramaiyan,
  • K. Sreenivasa Reddy,
  • Kiranmoy Patra,
  • Ayan Sarkar,
  • Alok Sinha,
  • B. Mahesh Naik,
  • M. Karthika

摘要

Regenerative agriculture (RA) offers a transformative pathway to tackle climate change, restore biodiversity, and strengthen rural economies. Integrating RA practices with carbon credit mechanisms provides strong financial incentives to accelerate widespread adoption. Key strategies such as conservation agriculture, agroforestry, cover cropping, crop rotation, livestock integration, and precision resource management significantly improve soil carbon sequestration, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and build climate-resilient farming systems. Strengthening Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) frameworks, along with bundling carbon credits with yield insurance and productivity gains, can further offer a robust approach to scaling adoption, particularly among smallholder farmers. In the countries from the Global South, there is an urgent need to develop dedicated and tailored methodologies for measuring and verifying carbon outcomes, specifically from RA practices. Research communities must prioritize creating standardized protocols, validated through pilot projects implemented on farmers’ fields, and demonstrating real-world feasibility and tangible benefits will build trust and drive adoption. Adopting technological innovations, including artificial intelligence, geo-spatial analytics, Internet of Things (IoT)-based soil sensing, mobile applications, and real-time carbon mapping, enables accurate measurement, monitoring, and verification of carbon dynamics. Agro-industries can support this transition through insulating mechanisms, providing farmers with more stable and predictable markets compared to the often-volatile voluntary carbon markets. Furthermore, linking carbon credits with associated ecosystem services such as water conservation, soil fertility improvement, and biodiversity enhancement can increase the quality and market value of credits, attracting premium prices nationally and internationally. Aligning financial incentives with ecological restoration firmly establishes RA as a pivotal strategy for achieving carbon neutrality, fostering sustainable food systems, and building resilient agroecological landscapes.