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

Hongli Feng, Lyubov Kurkalova (), Catherine Kling and Philip Gassman

Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications from Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Conservation Reserve Program; land retirement; working land. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-06
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Working Paper: Environmental Conservation in Agriculture: Land Retirement Versus Changing Practices on Working Land (2005)
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