Carbon sequestration in soils in Africa
On the site of the Ile-de-France regional delegation of the IRD in Bondy, in the suburbs of Paris.
© RFI / Sayouba Traoré
By: Sayouba Traoré
2 min
One of the elements responsible for global warming is carbon.
Usually, nature stores this carbon in soils and plants in the form of biomass.
However, human activities disrupt this natural cycle.
One of the axes that mobilizes scientific research is to study and promote land uses and agricultural practices favoring carbon sequestration in agricultural soils.
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When the sun sends heat to the Earth, some of that heat is sent back up to the sky.
This stabilizes the climate.
Greenhouse gases absorb infrared radiation emitted by the earth's surface and thus contribute to the greenhouse effect.
The two main culprits are water vapor and carbon dioxide.
These two elements are naturally present in the atmosphere.
Only here, human activity increases their concentration.
And that is the source of the problem.
Guest
:
Michel Brossard
, soil scientist at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), and president of the French Association for the Study of Soil.
Production: Sayouba Traoré
Director: Ewa Piedel
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