Assessment of Soil Organic Carbon Stocks under Various Land Use/Land Cover Types in The Kintampo North Municipal, Ghana

Abstract

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is one of the largest and active carbon pools. Soils in Africa have lost 136 gigatonnes of carbon between 1850 and the late 1990s and 33 % of carbon lost was attributed to land degradation and soil erosion (UNEP, 2012).