Some climate-smart agricultural practices may not be so smart
Published 2023-05-18 · Original archive entry · Explore research explainers
-Several practices being promoted as climate smart could lead to land use spillovers that change their net impact on climate
-Most evidence is that cover cropping with rye, as done in the US, causes a yield loss. We show that the land use spillovers can then negate most of the climate benefit of cover cropping.
-The method and data we used were made available (as an R package) so that others can apply the same approach to other questions related to land use spillovers
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-Most evidence is that cover cropping with rye, as done in the US, causes a yield loss. We show that the land use spillovers can then negate most of the climate benefit of cover cropping.
-The method and data we used were made available (as an R package) so that others can apply the same approach to other questions related to land use spillovers
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