Low-Carbon Agriculture in Brazil: The Environmental and Trade Impact of Current Farm Policies

Magalhães, Marcelo Marques de; Lima, Divina

doi:10.7215/ag_ip_20141202

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“…The strategy refers to the adoption of best management practices that protect the environment and natural resources and ultimately crops yield. It is among the most suitable approaches for mitigating GHG emissions [47][48][49]. Low C agriculture practice is primarily based on the adaption of the best agricultural management practices to reduce the CO 2 emissions from land use.…”

Section: Management Of Soil Organic Carbonmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, LSA also reflects the efficient use of energy resources by involving following operations: (i) decreasing the fossil fuel input by adaption of no or reduced tillage practices, (ii) enhancing nutrient use efficiency by increasing crop diversity and use of cover crops, and (iii) strengthening biological N fixation by including legume crops in crop rotation [50,51]. It has been reported as a sustainable strategy based on decreasing use of chemical N fertilizer [51], expansion of the area under reduced or no-tillage, and the use of crops with high biomass-C input [47,49].…”

Section: Management Of Soil Organic Carbonmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Carbon Sequestration to Avoid Soil Degradation: A Review on the Role of Conservation Tillage

Hussain

Guo

et al. 2021

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Human efforts to produce more food for increasing populations leave marks on the environment. The use of conventional agricultural practices, including intensive tillage based on the removal of crop residue, has magnified soil erosion and soil degradation. In recent years, the progressive increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) has created global interest in identifying different sustainable strategies in order to reduce their concentration in the atmosphere. Carbon stored in soil is 2–4 times higher than that stored in the atmosphere and four times more when compared to carbon stored in the vegetation. The process of carbon sequestration (CS) involves transferring CO2 from the atmosphere into the soil or storage of other forms of carbon to either defer or mitigate global warming and avoid dangerous climate change. The present review discusses the potential of soils in sequestering carbon and mitigating the accelerated greenhouse effects by adopting different agricultural management practices. A significant amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) could be sequestered by conversion of conventional tillage to conservation tillage. The most important aspect of conservation agriculture is thought to improve plant growth and soil health without damaging the environment. In the processes of climate change mitigation and adaptation, zero tillage has been found to be the most eco-friendly method among different tillage techniques. No-till practice is considered to enable sustainable cropping intensification to meet future agricultural demands. Although no-tillage suggests merely the absence of tillage, in reality, several components need to be applied to a conservation agriculture system to guarantee higher or equal yields and better environmental performance than conventional tillage systems.

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Section: Management Of Soil Organic Carbonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Management Of Soil Organic Carbonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carbon Sequestration to Avoid Soil Degradation: A Review on the Role of Conservation Tillage

Hussain

Guo

et al. 2021

Plants

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“…Depending on the methodology used, between its creation in 2010 and 2018, the Plan is estimated to have reduced GHG emissions by between 106.25 and 169.93 MtCO2eq (Manzatto et al, 2020 [183]). Therefore, according to this reports, between 72% and 115% of the Plan's 2020 mitigation target (average of 133.9-162.9 MtCO2eq) has been achieved.…”

Section: Adaptation and Low Carbon Emission Agriculture (Abc) Planmentioning

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A survey of GHG mitigation policies for the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector

Henderson

Frezal

Flynn

2020

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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The report was declassified by the OECD Joint Working Party on Agriculture and the Environment in August 2020 and was prepared for publication by the OECD Secretariat. This report, as well as any data and any map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.

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Low-Carbon Agriculture in Brazil: The Environmental and Trade Impact of Current Farm Policies

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Carbon Sequestration to Avoid Soil Degradation: A Review on the Role of Conservation Tillage

Carbon Sequestration to Avoid Soil Degradation: A Review on the Role of Conservation Tillage

A survey of GHG mitigation policies for the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector

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