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Actually, monks lived rather well off their vast herds of sheep; and I'm very happy with
my push-bike. These cowboys need to get out of their four-wheel-drives and back on their
horses.
1
Harvey, G (2008),
The Carbon Fields,
Grassroots, p 41. This quotation has been shortened.
2
Carbon Farming Expo and Conference, Orange NSW, 18-19 November 2008;
http://carbonfarming.blogspot.com/
3
T
he Carbon Footprint of British Agriculture
, The Nuffield Carbon Farming Conference, Stoneleigh, 30 April 2008;
Low Carbon Farming
, The Greenhouse, Bristol, 25 November 2008.
4
Sams, Craig (2007),
Farming Carbon
, Soil Association Conference 2007; Benn, Hilary (2009),
Challenges and
Opportunities: Farming for the Future
, Oxford Farming Conference, 6 January 2009, DEFRA,
http://www.defra.gov.uk/
5
Chicago Climate Exchange (2008),
Soil Carbon Management Offsets
,
http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/docs/off-
6
Carbon Farmers of America (n.d.),
Carbon Sinks
,
http://www.carbonfarmersofamerica.com/products.htm
7
For a circumspect view of minimum tillage and some other approaches to SOC sequestration, see Goulding, K
et al
(2009),
The Potential for Soil Carbon Sequestration
,
but with a Full Greenhouse Gas Budget
, Rothamsted 2009.
8
Paustian, K
et al
(1997), 'Agricultural Soils as a Sink to Mitigate CO
2
Emissions',
Soil Use and Management
, 13,
230-44.
9
Lal, R (1998) 'Myths and Facts About Soils and the Greenhouse Effect', in Rattan Lal (ed.),
Soil Carbon Sequest-
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, Proceedings of a Symposium held by the the SSSA in Baltimore MD 18-22 Oct 1998,
Soil Science Society of America Inc, Madison WI, 2001.
10
Smith, Pete
et al
, 'Potential for Carbon Sequestration in European Soils: Preliminary Estimates for Five Scenarios
Using Results from Long term Experiments',
Global Change Biology
3, 67-79, 1997.
11
FAO, 2006,
Livestock's Long Shadow
, FAO, p 114.
12
I
bid.
; see also Conservation Technology Information Center (2008),
Mitigating Climate Change, Conservation
Agriculture Carbon Offset Consultation
, West Fayette Indiana, 28-30 October 2008,
http://www.amazingcarbon.com/
13
FAO (2006),
op cit
. 11, p 280.
14
Schumann, G E
et al
(2001), 'The Dynamics of Soil Carbon in Rangelands', in Follett, R F, Kimble, M and Lal, R
(2001),
The Potential of US Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect
, Lewis Publishers.
15
Voisin, André,
Grass Productivity
, Island Press, 1988.
16
Savory, Allan, Introduction to the Island Press Edition of
Grass Productivity
,
ibid
.
17
Savory, Allan with Butterfield, Jody (1999),
Holistic Management
, Island Press, p 198.
18
Abbey, Edward (1988), 'Free Speech: The Cowboy and His Cow', in Abbey, Edward (1988),
One Life at a Time
Please
, Henry Holt and Co.
19
Bureau of Land Management (2009),
Factsheet on the BLM's Mangement of Livestock Grazing
, US Dept of the
Interior, Jan 2009,
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/grazing.html
20
Herman Mayeux, Foreword to Follett
et al
(2001),
op cit. 14
.
21
Behnke, Roy H Jr, Scoones, Ian and Kerven, Carol (1993),
Range Ecology at Disequilibrium
, Overseas Develop-
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22
Dagget, Dan (2005),
Gardeners of Eden
, Thatcher Charitable Trust, Santa Barbara CA, 2005, pp 72-4.
