By increasing soil organic carbon stocks, agriculture has the potential to contribute to climate change mitigation while building more resilient agrifood systems, and many countries already have soil carbon sequestration as part of the climate agenda. However, several barriers remain to the scaling up of sequestration, which RECSOIL aims to address:

• A lack of robust data evidence to inform decision-making and build investor confidence. 
• Challenges related to additional and permanent carbon storage, or the longevity of soil carbon storageNo uniform standards for measuring, reporting, and monitoring (MRV) carbon changes.
• No uniform standards for measuring, reporting, and monitoring (MRV) carbon changes
• Limited data on local soil information, use, and management.
• Limitations of soil laboratory analysis, including data quality and harmonizatio.
• Lack of medium to long-term investment.
• Uncertainty regarding the development of voluntary and compliance carbon markets.
• Lack of recognized metrics to assess ecosystem services.
• Low awareness of soil carbon
• Insufficient technical support to guide farmers on sustainable soil management.
• Lack of financial support for farmers de-risking transition to more sustainable food production systems

Addressing these barriers requires collaboration across sectors and disciplines, as well as sustained investment in research, development, and implementation. RECSOIL facilitates just that by collaborating with the private and public sectors, soil institutions, extension services and farmers to implement sustainable soil management under various conditions across the globe.