Climate Smart Agriculture is the future of food production. Here’s what that means.
KUNC reporter Rae Solomon dug deep to better understand what climate smart agriculture is and what it means to scale it across Colorado, speaking with the SCSC executive director Dr. Jane Zelikova about the important role of soil carbon in bolstering soil health more broadly.
“There is an incredibly tight relationship between soil carbon and soil health,” Zelikova said. “In fact, soil carbon can be the strongest predictor of a healthy soil system. Soils that have a lot of carbon in them also tend to have really good water infiltration rates. They tend to have really good soil aggregates. They tend to have tightly cycling nutrients.”
