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Reducing Greenhouse
Gas Buildup: Impacts on Ag-Sector Returns—Efforts to reduce
U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution come at a cost to all sectors
of the economy, including agriculture. But a program to pay farmers
to develop emissions-absorbing "carbon sinks" on agricultural land
could add to farm income.
Agricultural Adaptation to Climate
Change: Issues of Longrun Sustainability—Early evaluations
of the effects of climate change on agriculture, which did not account
for economic adjustments or consider the broader economic and environmental
implications of such changes, overestimated the negative effects
of climate change. This report, which highlights ERS research, focuses
on economic adaptation and concludes there is considerably more
sectoral flexibility and adaptability than found in other analyses.
The report frames the discussion of economic adjustments within
the context of global agricultural environmental sustainability.
June 1996
World Agriculture and
Climate Change: Economic Adaptations—A comprehensive, economically
consistent projection of how climate change might alter the location
and intensity of farming. Directly links detailed climate projections
with distributions of land and water resources, and estimates the
economic effects in the major resource-using sectors (crop, livestock,
and forestry). The Future Agricultural Resources Model (FARM), the
modeling framework used in the research, fully captures the economic
responses of farmers and other economic agents to climate change.
This report's main contribution is the description of FARM and the
impacts of four climate change scenarios on the distribution of
land and water resources. See questions and answers
for more current results.
Climate Change: Economic Implications for
World Agriculture
(to order AER-647)—Attempts to increase understanding
of how climate change may affect U.S. and world agriculture. It
explores how agriculture contributes to greenhouse gas emissions,
discusses consequences of climate change for economic activities,
and examines effects on regional crop yields expected to result
from broad changes in climate.
See selected bibliography...
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