Table 2 Global and regional potentials of additional SOC stock, crop production increase and inorganic N-input equivalent to that production increase, and the small-scale farmers’ contributions

Global

12.78 (28%)

11.55 (26%)

14.05 (30%)

38.25 (17%)

22.88 (15%)

57.48 (20%)

5.82 (19%)

3.89 (17%)

7.14 (21%)

North America

1.76 (0%)

1.62 (0%)

1.90 (0%)

6.28 (0%)

2.14 (0%)

12.07 (0%)

0.82 (0%)

0.42 (0%)

1.34 (0%)

Latin America and Caribbean

2.16 (55%)

1.95 (54%)

2.36 (56%)

4.49 (54%)

1.22 (42%)

9.74 (56%)

0.73 (54%)

0.17 (43%)

1.41 (56%)

Western Europe

0.49 (4%)

0.41 (3%)

0.59 (4%)

2.79 (3%)

0.98 (2%)

5.02 (3%)

0.33 (3%)

0.14 (2%)

0.54 (5%)

Eastern Europe and Central Asia

0.75 (29%)

0.62 (23%)

0.89 (34%)

2.32 (19%)

0.51 (16%)

4.19 (44%)

0.20 (13%)

0.01 (11%)

0.42 (30%)

Middle East and North Africa

0.34 (52%)

0.23 (51%)

0.45 (54%)

1.00 (50%)

0.53 (49%)

1.54 (52%)

0.18 (56%)

0.12 (51%)

0.23 (61%)

Sub-Saharan Africa

1.09

(84%)

0.93 (83%)

1.24 (84%)

1.29 (80%)

0.76 (79%)

1.81 (80%)

0.18 (71%)

0.10 (67%)

0.24 (80%)

South Asia

1.89

(35%)

0.71 (34%)

3.08 (42%)

3.84 (33%)

1.23 (30%)

7.33 (48%)

1.12 (32%)

0.28 (30%)

2.11 (46%)

Southeast Asia and Oceania

1.52 (23%)

1.39 (22%)

1.66 (23%)

3.06 (23%)

1.98 (19%)

4.67 (31%)

0.51 (16%)

0.41 (11%)

0.68 (22%)

East Asia

2.62 (1%)

2.10 (1%)

3.14 (1%)

12.78 (1%)

6.38 (1%)

19.44 (1%)

1.70 (1%)

0.90 (1%)

2.58 (2%)