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Katarina Hedlund. Foto.

Katarina Hedlund

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Katarina Hedlund. Foto.

Managing soil natural capital: An effective strategy for mitigating future agricultural risks?

Författare

  • Ronggang Cong
  • Katarina Hedlund
  • Hans Andersson
  • Mark Brady

Summary, in English

Uncontrollable events such as adverse weather and volatile prices present considerable risks for arable farmers. Soil natural capital, which views the capacity of soil biodiversity to generate ecosystem services as a component of farm capital, could be important for the stability and resilience of arable production systems. We investigate therefore whether managing soil natural capital could be an effective strategy for mitigating future agricultural risks. We do this by constructing a dynamic stochastic portfolio model to optimize the stock of soil organic carbon (SOC)—our indicator of soil natural capital—when considering both the risks and returns from farming. SOC is controlled via the spatial and temporal allocation of cash

crops and an illustrative replenishing land use. We find that higher soil natural capital buffers yield variance against adverse weather and reduces reliance on external inputs. Managing soil natural capital has therefore the potential to mitigate two serious agricultural risks: energy price shocks and adverse weather events, both of which are likely to be exacerbated in the future due to, e.g., globalization and climate change.

Avdelning/ar

  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • Biodiversitet
  • Biologiska institutionen
  • Markgruppen

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

30-39

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Agricultural Systems

Volym

129

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Biological Sciences
  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences

Nyckelord

  • Soil ecosystem services
  • Copula model
  • Dynamic portfolio theory
  • Soil organic carbon
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Resilience

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Soil Ecology

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0308-521X