This $9,985,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) supports the development of an integrated policy and decision support system to quantify the economic and environmental outcomes of climate-smart agricultural practices in the Midwestern Corn Belt region. The project aims to increase the adoption of these practices that can help achieve national carbon emission reduction goals. Key activities include:
- Developing an integrated model, conservation management decision support tool, virtual policy scenario dashboard, and training programs to translate soil carbon science and farmer behavior into actions that increase soil carbon storage while balancing other goals.
- Providing an undergraduate research experience and transdisciplinary graduate training program to inspire novel thinking about complex agricultural and environmental challenges.
The project's target outcomes are to encourage more widespread adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices through improved application of incentives for carbon storage and enhanced knowledge of the relationships between the carbon cycle, hydrologic cycle, and water quality.
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