Public policies for low carbon emission agriculture foster beef cattle production in southern Brazil

Costa, Natália Roberta Andrade Dalla; Baldissera, T. C.; Pinto, Cassiano Eduardo; Garagorry, F. C.; Moraes, Aníbal de; Carvalho, Paulo César de Faccio

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.10.014

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“…Brazil has recently relied on public policies to reduce deforestation [60]. The Brazilian Forest Code mandates legal forest reserves of 80% in the Amazon and 20% in the Cerrado of property owned in rural areas [61].…”

Section: Reducing Carbon Footprint Using Pasture Improvements and Gramentioning

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Improve Pasture or Feed Grain? Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Profitability, and Resource Use for Nelore Beef Cattle in Brazil’s Cerrado and Amazon Biomes

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Hoshide

Pedrosa

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Economic development, international food and feed demand, and government policies have converted Brazil’s natural ecosystems into agricultural land. The Integrated Farm System Model (IFSM) was evaluated using production, economic, and weather data collected on two cooperating farms in the Legal Amazon and Cerrado biomes in the Midwest state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Three sustainable agricultural intensification strategies, namely grain supplementation, pasture re-seeding, and pasture fertilization were simulated in IFSM with double the beef cattle stocking density compared to extensive grazing. Livestock dry matter consumption simulated in IFSM was similar for pasture grazing estimates and actual feed consumed by beef cattle on the two collaborating farms. Grain supplementation best balanced beef production and profitability with lower carbon footprint compared to extensive grazing, followed by pasture fertilization and pasture re-seeding. However, pasture re-seeding and fertilization had greater use of water and energy and more nitrogen losses. Human edible livestock feed use was greatest for grain supplementation compared to other modeled systems. While grain supplementation appears more favorable economically and environmentally, greater use of human edible livestock feed may compete with future human food needs. Pasture intensification had greater human edible feed conversion efficiency, but its greater natural resource use may be challenging.

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Section: Reducing Carbon Footprint Using Pasture Improvements and Gramentioning

confidence: 99%

Improve Pasture or Feed Grain? Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Profitability, and Resource Use for Nelore Beef Cattle in Brazil’s Cerrado and Amazon Biomes

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Hoshide

Pedrosa

et al. 2020

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“…Among household characteristics, family income, household size, and family business scale affect farmers’ low-carbon production practice greatly [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ]. Moreover, policy and socio-cultural level also have certain impacts on farmers’ low-carbon production practice and fiscal incentives affect farmers’ emission reduction behaviors [ 20 , 21 , 22 ]. Social norms affect farmers’ soil conservation behaviors while the cost of low-carbon production practice affects farmers’ willingness for adaptation [ 16 ].…”

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Analysis in the Influencing Factors of Climate-Responsive Behaviors of Maize Growers: Evidence from China

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Due to the natural production properties, agriculture has been adversely affected by global warming. As an important link between individual household farmers and modern agriculture, it is crucial to study the influence of agricultural productive services on farmers’ climate-responsive behaviors to promote sustainable development and improve agricultural production. In this paper, a questionnaire survey has been conducted among 374 maize farmers by using the combination of typical sampling and random sampling in Jilin Province of China. Moreover, the Poisson regression and the multi-variate Probit model have been used to analyze the effects of agricultural productive services on the choices of climate-responsive behaviors as well as the intensity of the behaviors. The results have shown that the switch to suitable varieties according to the frost-free period have been mostly common among maize growers in Jilin province. Agricultural productive services have a significant effect on the adoption intensity of climate- responsive behaviors, at the 1% level. Based on this conclusion, this paper proposes policy recommendations for establishing a sound agricultural social service system and strengthening the support for agricultural productive services. It has certain reference significance for avoiding climate risk and reducing agricultural pollution in regions with similar production characteristics worldwide.

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“…Generally, low-carbon agriculture refers to a new mode of modern agricultural production, in which agricultural output grows steadily accompanied by low agricultural chemical inputs and low carbon emissions, by means of strengthening technology, policy, and management [ 17 , 18 , 19 ]. It has been widely accepted that environmentally friendly agricultural growth is a correct approach to achieving the goal of a green economy, and reduction in agricultural carbon emissions is conducive to improving human well-being.…”

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Decoupling and Decomposition Analysis of Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Heilongjiang Province, China

Huang

2021

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Ensuring food security and curbing agricultural carbon emissions are both global policy goals. The evaluation of the relationship between grain production and agricultural carbon emissions is important for carbon emission reduction policymaking. This paper took Heilongjiang province, the largest grain-producing province in China, as a case study, estimated its grain production-induced carbon emissions, and examined the nexus between grain production and agricultural carbon emissions from 2000 to 2018, using decoupling and decomposition analyses. The results of decoupling analysis showed that weak decoupling occurred for half of the study period; however, the decoupling state and coupling state occurred alternately, and there was no definite evolving path from coupling to decoupling. Using the log mean Divisia index (LMDI) method, we decomposed the changes in agricultural carbon emissions into four factors: agricultural economy, agricultural carbon emission intensity, agricultural structure, and agricultural labor force effects. The results showed that the agricultural economic effect was the most significant driving factor for increasing agricultural carbon emissions, while the agricultural carbon emission intensity effect played a key inhibiting role. Further integrating decoupling analysis with decomposition analysis, we found that a low-carbon grain production mode began to take shape in Heilongjiang province after 2008, and the existing environmental policies had strong timeliness and weak persistence, probably due to the lack of long-term incentives for farmers. Finally, we suggested that formulating environmental policy should encourage farmers to adopt environmentally friendly production modes and technologies through taxation, subsidies, and other economic means to achieve low-carbon agricultural goals in China.

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Public policies for low carbon emission agriculture foster beef cattle production in southern Brazil

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

Improve Pasture or Feed Grain? Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Profitability, and Resource Use for Nelore Beef Cattle in Brazil’s Cerrado and Amazon Biomes

Improve Pasture or Feed Grain? Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Profitability, and Resource Use for Nelore Beef Cattle in Brazil’s Cerrado and Amazon Biomes

Analysis in the Influencing Factors of Climate-Responsive Behaviors of Maize Growers: Evidence from China

Decoupling and Decomposition Analysis of Agricultural Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Heilongjiang Province, China

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