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Soil Organic Carbon: Indirectly Controlled Land
Soil Organic Carbon: Indirectly Controlled Land
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This metric is intended to capture the amount of organic carbon within a gram of soil from land indirectly controlled by the organization during the reporting period, in accordance with the guidelines specified in the Regenerative Organic Alliance's Soil Sampling Guidelines: https://regenorganic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ROC-Soil-Sampling-Guidelines.pdf.

For purposes of this question, organizations should enter the most recent test result from the most representative plot of land sampled during the reporting period.

Organizations with multiple organic soil carbon results across different farms or entities may also calculate and enter a weighted average for their representative sample.

The scope of this metric includes results from land indirectly controlled by the organization (i.e., land that the organization supports or influences but does not directly cultivate or manage). Examples in which an organization indirectly controls land may include purchase contracts, sourcing from farmer cooperatives, and providing products and services to farmers and other organizations that cultivate and manage land.


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