The Lake District National Park has produced a new booklet "Managing Land for Carbon".
This booklet aims to help farmers be as carbon efficient aspossible within the boundaries of their own farming system.
It summarises information on carbon in a range of habitats, and suggests management practices to favour and those to avoid. For each habitat, it provides a table to complete to help farmers estimate how much carbon is stored in the soil and vegetation on their farm. By managing land for carbon across the whole farm farmers can determine options that best suit their farming system and provide the most carbon benefits. While some areas of the farm will be used more intensively, farmers can still improve their carbon footprint by managing some areas really well for carbon and making small alterations across the farm wherever they are possible. Some alterations increase productivity too.
Download the booklet here
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 managing_land_for_carbon_booklet.pdf | 1.32 MB |
