Promotion of Green Bussiness for Climate Neutrality: New Proposals for Carbon Farming

Agriculture in Europe need to progress towards a new business system, which sustainable agricultural practices are the driving force behind this business. These sustainable practices will contribute to Europe climate neutrality by 2050. Carbon farming is an agricultural management form where agricultural practices help to sequester CO2 in the soil and thus mitigate CO2 from the atmosphere. The adoption of Carbon farming by farmers can be encouraged through “The common agricultural policy” (CAP), regarding “Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition “ (GAEC) that become central to environmental and climate goals, and through the certification of carbon removals, by selling carbon credits to companies in the food supply chain or other industrial companies that emit CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, so that those emissions are offset by the CO2 sequestered in the soil. Increasing SOC (Soil organic carbon) in soil through carbon farming practices will promote soil quality and fertility, being essential for the protection of soil ecosystem services. Carbon farming farmers should be trained on the carbon credit market, so that it is seen as an opportunity to generate additional income for their farm, as well as contributing to carbon neutrality, also the credibility of the farming profession at community level and a healthy planet for future generations. The aim of this study is to identify new proposals, such as technical, technological, legislative or policy instruments, that help promote carbon farming practices, through a bibliometric analysis on carbon farming, as there is a gap on bibliometric review studies on carbon farming, in the scientific literature. The bibliometric analysis results showed that the principal common terms include “carbon farming,” “carbon sequestration, “climate change” and "Australia”, Australia is the country with most published carbon farming documents and key author with the top number of citations is Kragt M. E.. Carbon farming aims to be an ecoagrosystem to be broadly embraced by farmers.