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Reducing GHG emissions by abandoning agricultural land use on organic soils - A cost assessment -

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  • Roder, Norbert
  • Osterburg, Bernhard

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Roughly 4.9% of the German utilized agricultural area is located on organic soils (fens and bogs). Nevertheless, the drainage of these areas in order to allow their agricultural utilization causes roughly a third of the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of the German agricultural sector, being equivalent to 2.3% of the total German GHG emissions. Obviously, German policies trying to reduce the GHG emissions successfully must tackle this issue. The abandonment of the cultivation of organic soils would be an effective policy to reduce the GHG emissions however the question remains whether it is an efficient measure compared with the other options? In the paper we assess the mitigation costs on the basis of the standard gross margin and tenure of the agriculturally used peatlands and with the sector model RAUMIS. Without engineering and transaction costs the mitigation costs are below 50 € per Mg CO2eq. This makes rewetting of peatlands at least in the medium and long run a fairly efficient options for reducing GHG emissions, especially as the implications on the sector due to reallocation affects are fairly small.

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  • Roder, Norbert & Osterburg, Bernhard, 2012. "Reducing GHG emissions by abandoning agricultural land use on organic soils - A cost assessment -," 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 125134, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iaae12:125134
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.125134
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    1. Früh-Müller, Andrea & Bach, Martin & Breuer, Lutz & Hotes, Stefan & Koellner, Thomas & Krippes, Christian & Wolters, Volkmar, 2019. "The use of agri-environmental measures to address environmental pressures in Germany: Spatial mismatches and options for improvement," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 347-362.
    2. Henseler, Martin & Dechow, Rene, 2014. "Simulation of regional nitrous oxide emissions from German agricultural mineral soils: A linkage between an agro-economic model and an empirical emission model," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 70-82.

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    Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use;
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