The cost of emissions mitigation by legume crops in French agriculture

Benjamin Dequiedt and Dominic Moran

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Abstract: This paper considers the cost of greenhouse gas mitigation potential of legume crops in French arable systems. We construct marginal abatement cost curves to represent this mitigation or abatement potential for each department of France and provide a spatial representation of its extent. Despite some uncertainty, the measure appears to offer significant low cost mitigation potential. We estimate that the measure could abate half of the emissions reduction sought by a national plan for the reduction of chemical fertilizers emissions by 2020. This would be achieved at a loss of farmlands profit of 1,2%. Considering the geographical heterogeneity of cost, we suggest that a policy implementing carbon pricing in agriculture would be more efficient than a uniform regulatory requirement for including the crop in arable systems.

Keywords: Agriculture; greenhouse gas mitigation; legumes; cost-effectiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2014
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