May 9, 2022
Alejandro Plastina, associate professor authored a recent Farm Foundation Issue Report “The US Voluntary Agricultural Carbon Market: Where to From Here?”
This report, peer reviewed by two anonymous reviewers from the USDA Office of the Chief Economist, sheds light on multiple voluntary agricultural carbon programs and the contractual implications for participating farmers; discusses current and potential barriers to the development of a voluntary market for agricultural carbon credits, and steps to overcome them; and presents a simplified analysis of four possible scenarios for voluntary agricultural carbon markets and their implications for farmers and society.
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