Valuation of ecosystem services in organic cereal crop production systems with different management practices in relation to organic matter input

Fan Fan, Christian Bugge Henriksen and John Porter

Ecosystem Services, 2016, vol. 22, issue PA, 117-127

Abstract: As the degradation of global ecosystem services (ES) continues in the last five decades, maintaining or even enhancing the ES of agro-ecosystem is one of the approaches to mitigate the global ES loss. This study provides the first estimate of an economic valuation of ES provided by organic cereal crop production systems with different management practices in relation to organic matter input (low, medium and high). Our results show that organic matter inputs significantly affect the total ES value on organic cereal crop production systems. The system with high organic matter input has the highest gross total ES value (US$ 1969ha−1yr−1), followed by the low organic matter input system (US$ 1688ha−1yr−1), and the lowest ES value are found in the medium organic matter input system (US$ 1492ha−1yr−1). Organic matter inputs have strong positive relationship with non-marketable ES values, while this relationship was not found in marketable ES values. Monetizing the ES can be used by land managers and policy makers to adjust management practices in terms of organic matter input in cereal production system with a long term goal for sustainable agriculture.

Keywords: Organic farming; Ecosystem services; Economic valuation; Management; Informed decision making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.10.007

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