ALTIS - Alta Scuola Impresa e Società, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Via Necchi 5/9, 20123, Milano, Italy.
Department of Sustainable Crop Production, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Via Emilia Parmense 84, 29122, Piacenza, Italy.
Environ Manage. 2024 Mar;73(3):532-545. doi: 10.1007/s00267-023-01874-1. Epub 2023 Oct 16.
The rationale of this study originates from the primary sector's multiple roles in the global warming issue. Agriculture is reported among the main causes of anthropogenic global warming. At the same time, it is profoundly impacted by climate change and concurrently holds potential as a solution through the sequestration of soil organic carbon (SOC) facilitated by Conservation Agriculture (CA). However, the findings in the literature are controversial on the SOC sequestration capacity and the profitability of CA implementation. Considering the new and old objectives of the sector, this paper tackles the assessment of the actual capabilities of CA to be a viable strategy to pursue the social good of climate change mitigation and concurrently be profitable for farmers. The economic profitability and environmental performance of CA are assessed analysing data from a field experiment in Northern Italy (European temperate area) and identifying the best management practice by means of a data envelopment analysis.
本研究的基本原理源于第一产业在全球变暖问题中的多重角色。农业被认为是人为全球变暖的主要原因之一。与此同时，它受到气候变化的深刻影响，同时通过保护性农业（CA）促进土壤有机碳（SOC）的固存，具有作为解决方案的潜力。然而，文献中的研究结果在 SOC 固存能力和 CA 实施的盈利能力方面存在争议。考虑到该行业的新老目标，本文探讨了评估 CA 实际能力的问题，以确定其是否是追求减缓气候变化的社会效益、同时对农民有利可图的可行策略。通过对意大利北部（欧洲温带地区）田间试验的数据进行分析，并通过数据包络分析确定最佳管理实践，评估了 CA 的经济效益和环境绩效。
