[Terrapreta] Assaying carbon levels in soil

[Rick Davies]

If a poor rural community wanted to get paid for sequestering carbon in
their farm soils, how would they or any independent third party be able to
measure the carbon of their soils content before and after putting biochar
in the soil?

Would it be rocket science, or are there any methods that are reasonably low
tech, whose costs would not exceed potential income gains from selling
carbon offsets / carbon credits?

(Putting aside all the questions of how they would access these markets via
intermediaries / demand aggregators)

regards, rick davies

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