Weber et al. (2024): Potential long-term, global effects of enhancing the domestic terrestrial carbon sink in the United States through no-till and cover cropping
Maridee Weber, Marshall Wise, Patrick Lamers, Yong Wang, Greg Avery, Kendalynn A. Morris, Jae Edmonds IN: Carbon Balance and Management, 19, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-024-00256-2
Enhancing the terrestrial carbon sink, through practices such as the adoption of no-till and cover cropping agricultural management, could provide a contribution to offsetting hard-to-abate emissions. Changing domestic agricultural practices to optimize carbon content, however, might reduce or shift US agricultural commodity outputs and exports, with potential implications on respective global markets and land use patterns. Here, we use an integrated energy-economy-land-climate model to comprehensively assess the global land, trade, and emissions impacts of an adoption of domestic no-till farming and cover cropping practices based on carbon pricing.