Predicting the spatial variation in cost-efficiency for agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation programs in the U.S.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Two major factors that determine the efficiency of programs designed to mitigate greenhouse gases by encouraging voluntary changes in U.S. agricultural land management are the effect of land use changes on producers' profitability and the net sequestration those changes create. In this work, we investigate how the interaction of these factors produces spatial heterogeneity in the cost-efficiency of voluntary programs incentivizing tillage reduction and cover-cropping practices. We map county-level predicted rates of adoption for each practice with the greenhouse gas mitigation or carbon sequestration benefits expected from their use. Then, we use these bivariate maps to describe how the cost efficiency of agricultural mitigation efforts is likely to vary spatially in the

SUBMITTER: Cameron-Harp MV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10858497 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature