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Carbon Farming: Concepts, Tools & Markets
1. Carbon Farming
Permaculture for Farmers 201
NOFA Mass 2010
Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture LLC
With Gratitude to Mary Johnson, Darren Doherty, Elaine Ingham, Joel Salatin,
and the rest of the Carbon Farming Course trainers.
Regenerative Apios
Design Group Institute
17. Permaculture:
the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive
ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural
ecosystems.
18. Permaculture:
the harmonious integration of landscape and people, providing their
food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs, in a
sustainable way
40. Yeomans Keyline Plow – Plowing for Rapid & Cheap Soil Development (Pasture)
Soil conditioning
Existing Condition:
Shallow, Compacted, Drought-Prone Topsoil
1. Soil Test & Remineralise
2. Plow to 2” below hard pan
3. Remove stock for 4-6 weeks
4. Just at onset of flowering:
Hard graze to 2-4”
1. Plow to 2” below new root depth
2. Remove stock for 4-6 weeks
3. Just at onset of flowering:
Hard graze to 2-4”
1. Plow to 2” below new root depth:
Max out at 12-15”
2. Remove stock for 4-6 weeks
3. Just at onset of flowering:
Hard graze to 2-4”
And Another Thing:
1% increase in Organic Matter =
63 ton/ac capture in Atmospheric CO2 !
(That’s twice your total annual emissions)
51. Rodale Whitepaper
• A 40% reduction of global carbon emissions
is possible with a switch to regenerative
organic agricultural practices on the world’s
3.5 billion tillable acres.
• Agriculture contributes 20% of Carbon
emissions in the US, and 12% worldwide
52. Rodale Institute
Regenerative Organic Farming: A Solution to Global Warming
• A 40% reduction of global carbon emissions is possible with a switch to
regenerative organic agricultural practices on the world’s 3.5 billion tillable
acres.
• Agriculture contributes 20% of Carbon emissions in the US, and 12%
worldwide
• Soil holds twice as much carbon as terrestrial vegetation
• Midwestern soils that in the 1950s were composed of up to 20 percent carbon
are now between 1- and 2-percent carbon.
• Forests and grasslands generally are 6 to 10 percent organic matter, well over
the 1- to 3-percent levels typical of today’s agricultural field systems.
• Because soil organic matter is primarily carbon, increases in these levels will be
directly correlated with carbon sequestration. While prevailing farming practices
using synthetic inputs typically deplete SOM, regenerative farming practices,
including the integration of crop and animal production, build it.
53. Carbon
Farming
• August 25 -
September 16th.
• The Farm,
Summertown, TN
54.
55. Carbon
Farming
• August 25 -
September 16th.
• The Farm,
Summertown, TN
• Next one in
Hudson Valley?
94. Carbon Markets
• The details of how a particular
carbon-capture project must be:
• Designed
• Implemented
• Monitored
• Verified
95. Barriers to Small Farmers
• Scale
• Project planning complexity
• Monitoring, evaluation, verification
96. Barriers to Small Farmers
• Scale
• Project planning complexity
• Monitoring, evaluation, verification
97. Barriers to Small Farmers
• Scale
• Project planning complexity
• Monitoring, evaluation, verification
98. Barriers to Small Farmers
• Scale
• Project planning complexity
• Monitoring, evaluation, verification
• “Additionality”
99. A Solution: Aggregators (?)
• Aggregators gather together carbon-capture
projects and trade them on the markets
• Sector-focused (e.g. Agriculture, Energy)
• Economy of scale
• Reduced # of verifications
List of All CCX Aggregators:
www.chicagoclimatex.com/content.jsf?id=64
100. North Dakota Farmers Union
Carbon Credit Program
“The goal of the National Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program
is to enhance the income of farmers and ranchers through
economically successful and environmentally sound land
management practices that reduce or offset carbon emissions.”
http://carboncredit.ndfu.org/
104. Challenges
• Middle people = less to farmers.
• To become an aggregator, an organization or
company must have $1 million in net worth, with
$10 million in assets....
105. Challenges
• Middle people = less to farmers.
• To become an aggregator, an organization or
company must have $1 million in net worth, with
$10 million in assets....
• Tied to current global system.
106. Challenges
• Middle people = less to farmers.
• To become an aggregator, an organization or
company must have $1 million in net worth, with
$10 million in assets....
• Tied to current global system.
• Non-local; non-accountable?
108. Copenhagen
“The climate change accord reached at
the Copenhagen summit is a good
outcome but is inadequate to combat
global warming.”
- R.K. Pachauri, head of the UN IPCC
109. Copenhagen
“The climate change accord reached at
the Copenhagen summit is a good
outcome but is inadequate to combat
global warming.”
- R.K. Pachauri, head of the UN IPCC
110. Copenhagen
“It is now evident that beating global
warming will require a radically different
model of politics than the one on
display here in Copenhagen."
-Alternet
111. Copenhagen
“It is now evident that beating global
warming will require a radically different
model of politics than the one on
display here in Copenhagen."
-Alternet
112. Copenhagen
“Many shrug off events in Copenhagen
on the grounds that national, regional
and local regulations are the main
drivers of... investment, not international
deals.”
-The Economist
113. Copenhagen
“Many shrug off events in Copenhagen
on the grounds that national, regional
and local regulations are the main
drivers of... investment, not international
deals.”
-The Economist
123. Carbon Farming
Permaculture for Farmers 201
NOFA Mass 2010
Ethan C. Roland, AppleSeed Permaculture LLC
With Gratitude to Mary Johnson, Darren Doherty, Elaine Ingham, Joel Salatin,
and the rest of the Carbon Farming Course trainers.
Regenerative Apios
Design Group Institute