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oapen-20.500.12657-615442024-03-27T14:14:34Z Understanding the value of and reasoning behind farmer adoption of carbon centric practices Wander, Michelle M. Ugarte, Carmen M. carbon sequestration participatory research farmers' conservation behaviour organic farming conservation farming thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RB Earth sciences::RBG Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere::RBGB Sedimentology and pedology thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVK Agronomy and crop production thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVF Sustainable agriculture thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVB Agricultural science Understanding how to promote farmers’ use of carbon (C) centric practices known to increase soil C sequestration is needed to design information systems and orient policy, investment and environmental markets. Farmers undertake individual and collective actions using techniques that have varied over time and space according to land potential, farming systems, values and, evolving political and environmental contexts. Interviews with US Midwest conservation, conventional and organic grain farmers suggest market outlet most influences C stewardship. The number of samples needed to verify C sequestration targets by direct soil sampling is high and may temper interest in C markets; however, direct verification can reasonably be achieved by pooling data from multiple farms. Valorization-mechanisms and cooperative efforts lower costs and help individuals address large-scale issues like climate change and indirectly influence unwanted impacts of farm-size-expansion and competition for land, but do not consider benefits to family and community well-being that matter to farmers. 2023-02-27T12:22:06Z 2023-02-27T12:22:06Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20230227_9781801464314_51 9781801464314 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61544 eng Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9781801464314_web.pdf Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing 10.19103/AS.2022.0106.27 10.19103/AS.2022.0106.27 9f8f6c63-e2ae-40b8-8aac-316abb377d6a fefa258f-766a-4e3c-8e8b-16cb6c3ed795 9781801464314 Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing 22 Cambridge [...] University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign open access
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Understanding how to promote farmers’ use of carbon (C) centric practices known to increase soil C sequestration is needed to design information systems and orient policy, investment and environmental markets. Farmers undertake individual and collective actions using techniques that have varied over time and space according to land potential, farming systems, values and, evolving political and environmental contexts. Interviews with US Midwest conservation, conventional and organic grain farmers suggest market outlet most influences C stewardship. The number of samples needed to verify C sequestration targets by direct soil sampling is high and may temper interest in C markets; however, direct verification can reasonably be achieved by pooling data from multiple farms. Valorization-mechanisms and cooperative efforts lower costs and help individuals address large-scale issues like climate change and indirectly influence unwanted impacts of farm-size-expansion and competition for land, but do not consider benefits to family and community well-being that matter to farmers.
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