Location
SE-750 07
Uppsala SWEDEN
SLU is a university that is broad based both geographically and scientifically.
Science and education for sustainable life
SLU develops the knowledge about how to use natural, biological land and water resources in a sustainable manner.
Education, research and environmental monitoring and assessment are pursued at some thirty locations all over the country. The main campuses are Alnarp, Umeå and Uppsala.
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Displaying 1 - 5 of 12Soil carbon under current and improved land management in Kenya, Ethiopia and India: Dynamics and sequestration potentials
Agriculture is a major contributor to climate change,
emitting the three major greenhouse gases (GHGs) –
carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide – into the
atmosphere. According to the Fifth Assessment Report of
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use sector “is
responsible for just under a quarter (~10–12 Gt CO2eq/yr) of
[all] anthropogenic GHG emissions mainly from deforestation
and agricultural emissions from livestock, soil and nutrient
Enhancing soil organic carbon, particulate organic carbon and microbial biomass in semi-arid rangeland using pasture enclosures.
Pasture enclosures increase soil carbon dioxide flux rate in Semiarid Rangeland, Kenya
Using biotechnology-led approaches to uplift cereal and food legume yields in dryland environments