MODELING THE EFFECTS OF PASTURE EXPANSION ON EMISSIONS FROM LAND-USE CHANGE

Jerome Dumortier (), Dermot Hayes, Miguel Carriquiry, Fengxia Dong, Xiaodong Du (), Amani Elobeid, Jacinto F. Fabiosa and Kranti Mulik ()

No 95944, 2010: Climate Change in World Agriculture: Mitigation, Adaptation, Trade and Food Security, June 2010, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany from International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium

Abstract: We present a global agricultural greenhouse gas model that assesses emissions from land-use change. In addition to evaluating shifts in and out of crop production, we develop a pasture model to assess extensification and intensification of global livestock production based on herd size and stocking rate. We apply the model to a scenario that introduces a tax on me-thane emissions from cattle in the United States. The resulting expansion of pasture in the rest of the world leads to substantially higher emissions than without the tax. The yearly average emissions from the tax are 260 metric tons of CO2-equivalent.

Keywords: Land; Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2010-06-27
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Working Paper: Modeling the Effects of Pasture Expansion on Emissions from Land-Use Change (2010)
Working Paper: Modeling the Effects of Pasture Expansion on Emissions from Land-Use Change (2010)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.95944

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