“Thinking with soils”: relational and care-full perspectives on carbon farming futures and deep transformations

The story of modern agri-food systems is a complicated one. With agri-food systems identified as a major contributor to ecological crises and highly vulnerable to the negative consequences of these converging crises, their transition and transformation has become the focus of diverse strategies on international, national, and local scales. Agri-food sectors are thus becoming spaces of climate action for more sustainable futures. Carbon farming is an example of this type of action, with diverse ecological and economic goals, including mitigating climate change by sequestering carbon in agricultural soils and improving soil health. In these ways, soils are enrolled in the project of securing (human) futures.