Regenerative Agriculture and Its Potential for Soil Carbon Sequestration

Dear Colleagues,

Regenerative agriculture is attracting growing attention as a farming approach that combines a range of practices to improve soil quality and long-term productivity, with approaches such as reduced tillage, cover crops, and crop diversification helping to build soil structure, increase water retention, and support biological activity. At the same time, there is rising interest from consumers and businesses in products that come from farms managed under regenerative principles, valued for their environmental responsibility and local sustainability.

A dynamic business environment is also emerging around soil carbon sequestration, encompassing not only certified carbon credits but also wider market incentives that recognize the value of carbon-positive farming and biodiversity-friendly production. Despite this growing interest, reported results and assessment methods for carbon storage differ widely between studies, regions, and soil types.

Consequently, this Special Issue aims to bring together recent research and review papers that assess the real potential of regenerative agriculture to store carbon in soils, examine ways of measuring and modeling carbon change, and explore how these practices can be integrated into sustainable land management and policy frameworks. The contributions should also help to identify both the benefits and the limitations of regenerative systems under different conditions.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

• Soil carbon sequestration in regenerative farming systems;
• Effects of reduced tillage, cover crops and organic amendments;
• Monitoring and modeling of soil carbon stocks and fluxes;
• Economic and policy aspects of carbon farming;
• Market and social drivers behind regenerative production;
• Regional and global case studies showing practical outcomes.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Václav Novák
Prof. Dr. Teodor Rusu
Dr. Emre Tunca
Dr. Petr Šařec
Guest Editors

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