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Environmental Conservation in Agriculture: Land Retirement versus Changing Practices on Working Land

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Hongli Feng
Lyubov A. Kurkalova
Catherine L. Kling () (Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD))
Philip W. Gassman () (Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD))

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The study develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the allocation of conservation funds via selectively offering incentive payments to farmers for enrolling in one of two mutually exclusive agricultural conservation programs: retiring land from production or changing farming practices on land that remains in production. We investigate how the existence of a pre-fixed budget allocation between the programs affects the amounts of environmental benefits obtainable under alternative policy implementation schemes. The framework is applied to a major agricultural production region using field-scale data in conjunction with empirical models of land retirement and conservation tillage adoption, and a biophysical process simulation model for the environmental benefits of carbon sequestration and reduction in soil erosion.

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Paper provided by Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University in its series Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications with number 04-wp365.

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Keywords: Conservation Reserve Program; land retirement; working land.;

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  1. GR Pautsch & LA Kurkalova & BA Babcock & CL Kling, 2001. "The Efficiency Of Sequestering Carbon In Agricultural Soils," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 19(2), pages 123-134, 04. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Antle, John & Capalbo, Susan & Mooney, Sian & Elliott, Edward & Paustian, Keith, 2003. "Spatial heterogeneity, contract design, and the efficiency of carbon sequestration policies for agriculture," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 46(2), pages 231-250, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Secchi, Silvia & Jha, Manoj & Kurkalova, Lyubov & Feng, HongLi & Gassman, Philip W. & Kling, Catherine L., 2005. "Designation of Co-benefits and Its Implication for Policy: Water Quality versus Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils, The," Staff General Research Papers 12264, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Feng, Hongli, 2005. "Dynamics of Carbon Sequestration and Alternative Carbon Accounting, with an Application to the Upper Mississippi River Basin, The," Staff General Research Papers 12258, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Hongli Feng & Catherine L. Kling & Philip W. Gassman, 2004. "Carbon Sequestration, Co-Benefits, and Conservation Programs," Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications 04-wp379, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Feng, Hongli & Kling, Catherine L., 2005. "Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture: an Offset Program versus Other Conservation Programs," 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI 19177, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association). [Downloadable!]
  5. Feng, Hongli & Kling, Catherine L., 2005. "Consequences of Co-benefits for the Efficient Design of Carbon Sequestration Programs, The," Staff General Research Papers 12269, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
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  6. Cattaneo, Andrea, 2005. "Prescriptive use of Environmental Indices: A "How To" Guide for Conservation Programs," 2005 International Congress, August 23-27, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark 24764, European Association of Agricultural Economists. [Downloadable!]
  7. Hongli Feng & Catherine L. Kling & Lyubov A. Kurkalova & Silvia Secchi & Philip W. Gassman, 2005. "Conservation Reserve Program in the Presence of a Working Land Alternative: Implications for Environmental Quality, Program Participation, and Income Transfer, The," Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications 05-wp402, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Williams, Jeffery & Pendell, Dustin & Sweeney, Daniel & Rice, Charles & Nelson, Richard, 2006. "A Risk Analysis of Carbon Sequestration in Claypan Soil with Conservation Tillage Systems and Nitrogen Fertilizers for Grain Sorghum and Soybean," 2006 Annual Meeting, February 5-8, 2006, Orlando, Florida 35327, Southern Agricultural Economics Association. [Downloadable!]
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