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Methane Emissions and Productivity Growth in Italian Agriculture

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  • Silvia Coderoni
  • Roberto Esposti

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The paper proposes an analysis of long-term agricultural methane emissions in Italian regions. Looking back over the past, this analysis shows a sustainable path achieved through the transformation of agriculture and its relative decline within the Italian economy. The paper proposes two distinct scenarios to analyze what kind of transformations could generate and support such sustainability in the future. The first concerns the reduction of the livestock population due to changes in dietary behaviour. The second is based on some changes in farming activity allowing for a further reduction of emissions with a constant or increasing level of production.

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  • Silvia Coderoni & Roberto Esposti, 2013. "Methane Emissions and Productivity Growth in Italian Agriculture," QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, Associazione Rossi Doria, issue 3, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:rar:journl:0266
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    Keywords

    Agriculture and environment; Agricultural productivity; Agricultural GHG emissions;
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    JEL classification:

    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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