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Author : John M. Antle
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Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Economics of Agricultural Soil Carbon Sequestration in the Northern Plains written by John M. Antle and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John M. Kimble
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420044095
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Soil Carbon Management written by John M. Kimble and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-05-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better Manage Soil C for Improved Soil Quality In the United States, soil has fueled the availability of abundant, safe food, thus underpinning economic growth and development. In the future we need to be more vigilant in managing and renewing this precious resource by replacing the nutrients and life-sustaining matter that we remove for
Download or read book Economics of Sequestering Carbon in the U.S. Agricultural Sector written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases can be reduced by withdrawing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it in soils and biomass. This report analyzes the performance of alternative incentive designs and payment levels if farmers were paid to adopt land uses and management practices that raise soil carbon levels. At payment levels below $10 per metric ton for permanently sequestered carbon, analysis suggests landowners would find it more cost effective to adopt changes in rotations and tillage practices. At higher payment levels, afforestation dominates sequestration activities, mostly through conversion of pastureland. Across payment levels, the economic potential to sequester carbon is much lower than the technical potential reported in soil science studies. The most cost-effective payment design adjusts payment levels to account both for the length of time farmers are willing to commit to sequestration activities and for net sequestration. A 50-percent cost-share for cropland conversion to forestry or grasslands would increase sequestration at low carbon payment levels but not at high payment levels.
Author : Klaus Lorenz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319923188
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Ecosystems written by Klaus Lorenz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive book on basic processes of soil C dynamics and the underlying factors and causes which determine the technical and economic potential of soil C sequestration. The book provides information on the dynamics of both inorganic (lithogenic and pedogenic carbonates) and organic C (labile, intermediate and passive). It describes different types of agroecosystems, and lists questions at the end of each chapter to stimulate thinking and promote academic dialogue. Each chapter has a bibliography containing up-to-date references on the current research, and provides the state-of-the-knowledge while also identifying the knowledge gaps for future research. The critical need for restoring C stocks in world soils is discussed in terms of provisioning of essential ecosystem services (food security, carbon sequestration, water quality and renewability, and biodiversity). It is of interest to students, scientists, and policy makers.
Author : John M. Kimble
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420032291
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil written by John M. Kimble and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change is one factor driving agricultural policy development of programs that might pay farmers for practices with a high potential to sequester carbon. With chapters by economists, policy makers, farmers, land managers, energy company representatives, and soil scientists, Agricu
Download or read book Economics of Sequestering Carbon in the U.S. Agricultural Sector written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases can be reduced by withdrawing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it in soils and biomass. This report analyzes the performance of alternative incentive designs and payment levels if farmers were paid to adopt land uses and management practices that raise soil carbon levels. At payment levels below $10 per metric ton for permanently sequestered carbon, analysis suggests landowners would find it more cost effective to adopt changes in rotations and tillage practices. At higher payment levels, afforestation dominates sequestration activities, mostly through conversion of pastureland. Across payment levels, the economic potential to sequester carbon is much lower than the technical potential reported in soil science studies. The most cost-effective payment design adjusts payment levels to account both for the length of time farmers are willing to commit to sequestration activities and for net sequestration. A 50-percent cost-share for cropland conversion to forestry or grasslands would increase sequestration at low carbon payment levels but not at high payment levels.
Author : Norman J. Rosenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940173089X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Storing Carbon in Agricultural Soils written by Norman J. Rosenberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soil carbon sequestration can play a strategic role in controlling the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and thereby help mitigate climatic change. There are scientific opportunities to increase the capacity of soils to store carbon and remove it from circulation for longer periods of time. The vast areas of degraded and desertified lands throughout the world offer great potential for the sequestration of very large quantities of carbon. If credits are to be bought and sold for carbon storage, quick and inexpensive instruments and methods will be needed to monitor and verify that carbon is actually being added and maintained in soils. Large-scale soil carbon sequestration projects pose economic and social problems that need to be explored. This book focuses on scientific and implementation issues that need to be addressed in order to advance the discipline of carbon sequestration from theory to reality. The main issues discussed in the book are broad and cover aspects of basic science, monitoring, and implementation. The opportunity to restore productivity of degraded lands through carbon sequestration is examined in detail. This book will be of special interest to professionals in agronomy, soil science, and climatology.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428906355
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Economics of sequesterings Carbon in the Agricultural Sector written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dean A. Bangsund
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Economics and Policy of Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils written by Dean A. Bangsund and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard D. Horan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351146955
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Agri-Environmental Policy, Volume II written by Richard D. Horan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set collects key essays examining economic theory, methods, and issues salient to agri-environmental policy in the US and in Europe, as well as in other countries. The topics under discussion are arranged thematically and include theoretical, numerical and empirical works; all are grounded in policy and economics. The introduction to these volumes reviews the evolution of agri-environmental policies, with an important focus on the history of US policy and European agri-environmental policy. A key feature within this is the importance of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US, particularly its move towards more 'market-based incentives' from the 1980s onwards. Within the European context, the effects of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) on agri-environmental programmes and schemes within the member states, are discussed. Significantly, the essays republished here have provided the knowledge base that has influenced further applied work, creating an influential impact on policy development.
Author : Norman J. Rosenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140205601X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains written by Norman J. Rosenberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American Great Plains is a major global breadbasket but its agriculture is stressed by drought, heat, damaging winds, soil erosion and declining ground water resources. Biomass production and processing on the Plains would partially restore a perennial vegetative cover and create employment opportunities. This book explores the possibility that the ecology and economy of the Plains region, and similar regions, would benefit from the introduction of perennial biomass crops.
Author : Leslie Lipper
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
ISBN 13 : 9789251070826
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Climate Change Mitigation Finance for Smallholder Agriculture written by Leslie Lipper and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on FAO policy advice and incorporating lessons from ongoing agricultural carbon finance projects of FAO and other organisations, this document aims to provide an overview of potential mitigation finance opportunities for soil carbon sequestration. The first part provides an overview of the opportunities for climate change mitigation from agricultural soil carbon sequestration. The second part is aimed primarily at carbon projects developers and decision makers at national level concerned with environmental and agriculture policies and incentives and farmers' associations working towards rural development and poverty alleviation.
Author : John M. Antle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Economics and Policy Design for Soil Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture written by John M. Antle and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chad Matthew Hellwinckel
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Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Estimating Potential Economic Net Carbon Flux from U.S. Agriculture Using a High-resolution, Integrated, Socioeconomic-biogeophysical Model written by Chad Matthew Hellwinckel and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimation of the carbon abatement potential of a national carbon market upon U.S. agricultural lands is needed by climate analysts, policymakers, and carbon market brokers. A high resolution, integrated, socioeconomic-biogeophysical model is developed in this research by linking the economics of land management with spatial data on soils and land use. The economic component of the model functions at the county level with biophysical data at the sub-county level of resolution. The model is used to estimate changes in net carbon flux induced by incentives for conservation tillage on nine major crops. The economic potential reduction in net carbon flux at incentives of $500 per metric ton carbon (MtC) is estimated to be 18.92 million metric tons carbon (MMtC) below baseline, and 12.6 MMtC below baseline at an offered incentive of $125 per MtC. Results indicate that the Northern Great Plains, northern Corn Belt, and Mississippi Delta have the greatest economic potential for carbon abatement. Regions with significant amounts of acreage in hay have the greatest potential for gains in net soil carbon. Application of incentives based on soil sequestration potential leads to "leakage" in some regions where land is reallocated from low input practices to higher input practices. This analysis created an ideal opportunity to study the interactions of data resolution and analytical scale. When analyzing carbon abatement at the national scale, abatement estimations were similar using either high or low resolution data. But, if regional estimation is a goal, the geographic resolution of data must match or surpass the geographic scale of analysis, otherwise estimation errors will be large. Although validation using field-level data indicates that model results are not appropriate for fieldlevel estimation, it also indicates that the high resolution methodology developed here results in much smaller errors than lower resolution versions. Results indicate that there are many challenges to implementation, but if policymakers decide to implement a carbon abatement program using conservation tillage, either through a market-based mechanism or through government 'green payments', the methodology developed here could help reduce uncertainty in estimating regional abatement quantities.
Author : Alessandro Piccolo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642233856
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils written by Alessandro Piccolo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of techniques, methodologies and scientific data arises from a four-year Italian research project, which took place at university research stations in Turin, Piacenza, Naples and Potenza. Soil Organic Matter (SOM) represents an active and essential pool of the total organic carbon on the planet. Consequently, even small changes in this SOM carbon pool may have a significant impact on the concentration of atmospheric CO2. Recent new understanding of the chemical nature of SOM indicates that innovative and sustainable technologies may be applied to sequester carbon in agricultural soils. Overall results of the project have been applied to develop an innovative model for the prediction and description, both quantitatively and qualitatively, of carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. This book provides experts in different areas of soil science with a complete picture of the effects of new soil management methods and their potentials for practical application in farm management.
Author : Jan Lewandrowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781422306949
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Economics of Sequestering Carbon in the US Agricultural Sector written by Jan Lewandrowski and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suk-won Choi
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (571 download)
Download or read book The Potential and Cost of Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soil written by Suk-won Choi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study investigates the cost and potential of carbon sequestration in agricultural soil in the Midwest U.S. Previous economic studies ignored several important features such as the range of residue management intensity, dynamic soil carbon properties, cyclical crop rotation patterns, alternatives on the baseline scenarios, and spatial pattern of carbon gains. Developing the empirical dynamic model that maximizes the net present value of market welfare on corn and soybean, two different carbon programs are applied: carbon renting program and fixed payment per hectare with minimum residue intensity. Several empirical estimations are employed to obtain parameters for the dynamic model, in particular, residue management impacts on crop yield and carbon dynamics. The crop yield loss by conservation practice is greater in high quality soil than the low quality class. Sensitivity analysis on different baseline scenario suggests that carbon sequestration path could be altered by different assumptions. It suggests that the estimates of the carbon gains from any carbon policy would be sensitive by how baseline scenario is assumed. In general, the adoption rate of conservation practice is higher in soybean and low quality soil classes than in corn and high quality soil classes. Carbon renting analysis shows that corn price could rise and soybean price could decrease, but the magnitude is not immense. Overall, the average cost of carbon sequestration is the lowest with carbon renting policy and the highest with fixed payment per hectare with low minimum residue management requirement. The average cost rages from $0.06 to $4.50 per ton with carbon renting scenario. With fixed payment scenario, the average cost rises to $40-$613 per ton with 35 % residue management and $18-$304 per ton with 75% requirement. The area with high yield potential does not necessarily provide the carbon gains because the residue management intensity is minimal at 35 %. The source of carbon gains in the study region is from the middle quality soil class. However, low quality soil class does not provide carbon either because conservation practice adoption rate was already high in the baseline scenario and also the total potential for the carbon gain is small.
