creators_name: Ball, Andrew S
creators_name: Pretty, Jules N
editors_name: Powell, Jane
editors_name: et al., 
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2006-10-23
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:32:25
metadata_visibility: show
title: Agricultural influences on carbon emissions and sequestration
ispublished: pub
subjects: environment
subjects: 5emissions
full_text_status: public
keywords: Colloquium of Organic Researchers; COR; carbon emission; sequestration; farm management; environment 
abstract: This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference. Agricultural systems contribute to carbon emissions through several mechanisms: the direct use of fossil fuels in farm operations, the indirect use of embodied energy in inputs that are energy intensive to manufacture (e.g. fertilizers), and the cultivation of soils resulting in the loss of soil organic matter. However agriculture can also sequester carbon when organic matter accumulates in the soil or above-ground woody biomass acts as a permanent sink or is used as an energy source that substitutes for fossil fuels. The latest empirical data on agricultural carbon emissions and carbon sequestration opportunities in agricultural systems are reviewed and the necessary land use and management practices that will need to be employed to optimise carbon sequestration are considered. 
date: 2002
date_type: published
publication: Proceedings of the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference
publisher: Organic Centre Wales, Institute of Rural Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth
pagerange: 247-250
refereed: never
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citation: Ball, Andrew S and Pretty, Jules N (2002) Agricultural influences on carbon emissions and sequestration. UK Organic Research 2002 Conference, Aberystwyth, 26-28 March 2002. In: Powell, Jane and et al., (Eds.) Proceedings of the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference, Organic Centre Wales, Institute of Rural Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth, pp. 247-250.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/8416/1/ball_pretty_Carbon_emissions_sequestration.pdf