Removing Barriers and Creating Opportunities for Climate-Resilient Agriculture by Optimizing Federal Crop Insurance

Pol, Laura K. van der; Tibbetts, Clara A.; Hunter, Danielle E. Lin

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“…As such, financial institutions, governmental agencies, and NGOs must continue working towards reform. Recommendations from advocacy groups such as the American Farmland Trust and Natural Resources Defense Council include eliminating fallow requirements, phasing out single-crop, yield-based coverage in lieu of whole farm revenue protection, destigmatizing the use of cover crops as a risky practice, and incentivizing the use of best management practices through insurance premium reductions (Natural Resources Defense Council, 2017;Beckie et al, 2019;van der Pol et al, 2021). USDA PCCP funding should be made permanent and expanded to include additional conservation practices, while climate-smart tax credit programs could be also expanded to a federal level.…”

Section: Opportunitiesmentioning

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Grounding United States policies and programs in soil carbon science: strengths, limitations, and opportunities

Gelardi

Rath

Kruger

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The advent of “natural climate solutions” and “climate smart agriculture” has increased interest in managing agricultural lands to sequester soil carbon and mitigate climate change. This has led to enormous opportunities for soil scientists and growers alike, as new soil carbon initiatives are created by public, private, and philanthropic entities. It has also led to confusion over what is possible or practical to achieve through agricultural management, as soil carbon formation and storage is complex, and its response to management is context-dependent. This can pose challenges to decision makers tasked with creating defensible, science-informed policies and programs for building and protecting soil carbon. Here we summarize the science concerning the potential for agricultural soils to serve as a natural climate solution, in order to frame a discussion of current approaches in United States (US) policy and practice. We examine existing strategies such as soil health initiatives and direct incentive payments, as well as emerging schemes such as carbon markets and crop insurance reform. We suggest future directions for each strategy, and make recommendations for synthesizing approaches into a cohesive US policy portfolio. Guiding principles for this discussion include the notions that (i) climate change adaptation must be prioritized alongside climate change mitigation; (ii) soil carbon sequestration must be paired with greenhouse gas emission reductions; (iii) structural issues and barriers to adoption must be addressed as part of all policies and programs; (iv) practice- and place-specific programs must be administered in lieu of one-size-fits-all prescriptions; and (v) soil carbon science is not yet sufficiently advanced for the accounting and contractual frameworks proposed in cap-and-trade or regulatory approaches.

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Section: Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grounding United States policies and programs in soil carbon science: strengths, limitations, and opportunities

Gelardi

Rath

Kruger

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…The Journal of Science Policy & Governance previously included a policy memo addressing the optimization of the crop insurance program (Pol, Tibbetts, and Lin Hunter 2021). The 2021 memo recommended reforming crop insurance by changing crop coverage to incentivize practices that would make the agriculture industry more climate-resilient (Pol, Tibbetts, and Lin Hunter 2021). In contrast to that article, this memo will address the ARC and PLC subsidy programs and provide policy recommendations on program reform to be more consistent with economic, nutritional, and climate best practices.…”

Section: Statement Of Issuementioning

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Climate Change, Food, and National Security: Reforming Farm Subsidies to Incentivize Regenerative Agriculture Practices to Increase U.S. Food System Climate Resilience

Chartampila,

LePetri,

Rothstein

2023

JSPG

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The agriculture sector is critical to global security, as it provides food security and employment across the world. However, the sector is both vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and one of the biggest contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. As such, all countries must consider the urgent need to respond to climate change and build a resilient and sustainable global food chain and food supply. As one of the largest economies in the world, the US has a large role in the global food chain, and therefore, has a responsibility to fortify its food system against the increasing threats of global climate change. US agricultural policy is largely determined by the Farm Bill, which will be reauthorized this year for the next five years. Thus, Congress has the unique opportunity to improve US agriculture policies that determine the costs of US production, farm earnings, agricultural contributions to global climate change, and ultimately dictate what we eat. This paper is targeted to those legislators tasked with the 2023 Farm Bill reauthorization, namely the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, and will address how two of the biggest components of the Farm Bill, Agriculture Risk (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs, can be reformed. Ultimately, we recommend capping the ARC and PLC award per farm and reinvesting the savings in regenerative agriculture practices. Supporting regenerative agricultural practices would help the US food system become more resilient, thereby strengthening global food security and sustainability, setting a powerful example for the rest of the world.

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“…For the convenience of analysis, this paper simplifies the commercialization of the new crop varieties as the transaction relationship between R&D institutions and seed industry institutions. The influence of other parties is included in the research on the contractual relationship between the two parties [5][6][7].…”

Section: The Crop Breeding System and Policymentioning

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Study on the Innovation of Crop Breeding System and Protection of New Plant Varieties in China

Shu¹

2022

International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications

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Study on the innovation of crop breeding system and protection of new plant varieties in China is conducted in this paper. Agriculture is the foundation of a country's national economy, and developed agriculture is the symbol of a country's modernization. The commercialization process of new crop varieties involves multiple links such as research and development of the new varieties, technology transfer, seed production, and seed marketing. This paper conducts the comprehensive analysis for the efficient models.

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Removing Barriers and Creating Opportunities for Climate-Resilient Agriculture by Optimizing Federal Crop Insurance

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Grounding United States policies and programs in soil carbon science: strengths, limitations, and opportunities

Grounding United States policies and programs in soil carbon science: strengths, limitations, and opportunities

Climate Change, Food, and National Security: Reforming Farm Subsidies to Incentivize Regenerative Agriculture Practices to Increase U.S. Food System Climate Resilience

Study on the Innovation of Crop Breeding System and Protection of New Plant Varieties in China

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