期刊
AGRONOMY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
卷 35, 期 2, 页码 713-724出版社
SPRINGER FRANCE
DOI: 10.1007/s13593-014-0267-9
关键词
Life cycle assessment; Greenhouse gas emission; Mediterranean; Organic management; Carbon sequestration; Nitrous oxide; Coproduct allocation
资金
- Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [895-2011-1020]
Agriculture is a major driver of climate change, particularly when all indirect emission sources are accounted for. Mitigation options targeted on one process are often proposed, ignoring their secondary effects on the overall greenhouse gas balance. Integrative methodologies such as life cycle assessment (LCA) are often applied without adjusting emission factors to specific site characteristics. Here, we used LCA to calculate the global warming potential of 38 pairs of organic and conventional herbaceous cropping systems and products in Spain. Crop products included rainfed cereals and pulses, rice, open-air vegetables, and greenhouse vegetables. We used data from farmer interviews and published conversion factors. Our results show that the emission balances were dominated by fossil fuel use rather than by direct field emissions. Organic management reduced crop emissions by 36-65 %, with the exception of rice showing an increase of 8 % due to methane generation. Product-based emissions of organic crops were also lower by 30 % on average, except for rice.
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