Benchmarking the GHG emissions intensities of crop and livestock–derived agricultural commodities produced in Latvia

Lenerts, Arnis; Popluga, D.; Naglis-Liepa, Kaspars

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“…Nutrient use efficiency [12,38,127,222] Soil organic carbon [33,71,88,92,106,144,149,177,202,[223][224][225][226] Soil erosion [18,71] Eutrophication potential [43,81,82,84,92,[106][107][108]111,114,140,187,221,227] Acidification potential [43,47,81 Through the analysis, 70 indicators were identified, and these were divided into 26 criteria. The latter were grouped into ten principles that belonged to the three different pillars of sustainability: environmental, economic, and social (Table 1).…”

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Sustainability Indicators for Dairy Cattle Farms in European Union Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Pavanello,

Franchini,

Bovolenta

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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The European cattle milk sector has rapidly intensified in recent decades. This trend has received widespread disapproval from the public, which highlights the many problems linked to intensification. To address these concerns, agricultural policies commonly impose an agroecological transition. In order to evaluate and monitor the degree of sustainability of dairy cattle farms over time, many sets of indicators have been proposed in recent years. However, these indicators have often referred only to specific aspects of sustainability or have been generically proposed for the entire agricultural sector, and therefore, they are not capable of capturing the peculiarities and the complexity of the dairy cattle sector. A systematic review of the scientific literature was carried out to obtain a complete picture of the indicators proposed for the European context. A total of 325 out of over 6700 papers were selected, and three pillars—environmental, economic, and social pillars—were explored. A total of 70 indicators were identified, which could help build a complete and less sectoral picture of sustainability than that proposed so far. A total of 22 indicators were associated with the environmental pillar, 18 indicators were associated with the economic pillar, and 17 indicators were associated with the social pillar, while 12 indicators were associated with two different pillars. With reference to the measurement methods, considerable variability was highlighted, which did not allow us to identify or propose unique methods for measuring each indicator.

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Section: Air Qualitymentioning

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Sustainability Indicators for Dairy Cattle Farms in European Union Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Pavanello,

Franchini,

Bovolenta

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…Beef enterprises may initially us standardized or normalized values for the region (e.g., a Gross Margin template, or Aus tralian Bureau of Statistics data) for benchmarking but could use comparison with aggre The benchmarking of livestock production efficiency between businesses and industries may be achieved provided the appropriate metrics are selected [130]. Benchmarking has been widely used to compare GHG emissions for different livestock systems in Europe [187][188][189]. Benchmarking should be conducted across a sufficient timeframe to account for variability in seasonal and inter-annual conditions that may affect GHG emissions, carbon sequestration and biodiversity indicators.…”

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Climate and Biodiversity Credentials for Australian Grass-Fed Beef: A Review of Standards, Certification and Assurance Schemes

Thomas,

Mata,

Toovey

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Extensive livestock production occupies 25% of the ice-free terrestrial surface of the Earth, and Australian beef production contributes about 10% of this total land footprint. Therefore, the management of cattle has major implications for natural vegetation, soils, biodiversity, and atmospheric greenhouse gases in Australia and globally. To meet global sustainability targets and consumer expectations, a variety of environmental Standards, Certification and Assurance (SCA) schemes are being developed and implemented to enable producers to verify claims relating to their products. Improved standardization and coordination are now needed to address the rapid proliferation of credentialing systems that use different frameworks, methods and levels of scientific verification. Using the Australian grass-fed beef industry as a case study, we identified the measures, metrics and methods that are currently used by SCA schemes for climate and biodiversity credentialing. From here, a co-design process with industry representatives was applied to develop recommendations for credentialing in extensive beef production, feedlots and meat processing. It was clear that the successful adoption of credentialing by beef producers will require flexible and user-friendly support tools that use scalable data sources such as existing producer records, agtech databases and remote sensing information. Substantive rewards and incentives will be required to support producer engagement with the SCA schemes. Overall, ’more needs to be done to ensure the transparency of schemes and to meet benchmarks for integrity such as determining uncertainty and support though peer-reviewed science.

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“…In Latvia, measurements of GHG emissions in the agricultural sector have been launched and are implemented in several directions. Firstly, research on GHG emission reduction measures and develops future scenarios for GHG emissions in Latvia (Kreismane et al, 2016;Lēnerts et al, 2016;Lenerts, Berzins, & Popluga, 2016;Lenerts, Popluga, & Naglis-Liepa, 2019;Nipers, Pilvere, & Zeverte-Rivza, 2017;Pilvere & Lenerts, 2015;Zeverte-Rivza, Popluga, & Berzina, 2017)and there is a large potential for land to be used in efficient agricultural production. National task is set for the next years in Latvia to retain agricultural land for agricultural production, in order to efficiently manage approximately 2 million ha.…”

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The impact of crop on GHG emissions from clay soils: case study of Latvia

Zalite¹,

Pilecka-Ulcugaceva²,

Valujeva³

et al. 2021

Research for Rural Development

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Agriculture is a source of three primary GHG: CO2, CH4 and N2O. In order to reduce agricultural GHG emissions, agricultural practices have to promote sustainable land management by helping to prevent soil erosion and creating the potential to increase soil carbon stock. Sustainable soil management includes reducing tillage and introducing legumes in crop rotation. The aim of the study is to identify the impacts of the soil tillage and the cultivated crops on formation of GHG emissions. The study site has 24 experimental fields where two types of soil tillage have been used and four crops where grown (wheat Triticum aestivum, rape Brassica napus, beans Vicia faba and barley Hordeum vulgare). Soil humidity, soil temperature and measurements of GHG emissions have been carried out during the plant vegetation period from 2018 to 2020. GHG emissions where measured using Picarro G2508. A total of 460 measurements of GHG emissions were made in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The minimum value of N2O emission is -19.5 g ha-1 day-1, but the maximum is 273.4 g ha-1 day-1. CH4 emission has a minimum value of -84.8 g ha-1 day-1, and a maximum of 514.1 g ha-1 day-1. The minimum value of CO2 emission is -13.0 kg ha-1 day-1, but maximum of 1026.7 kg ha-1 day-1. The results of CO2, CH4 and N2O emissions show a significant discrepancies between the arithmetic mean and the median values which indicates the observed extreme values. Kruskal-Wallis test showed statistically significant differences in GHG emissions by crop groups.

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Benchmarking the GHG emissions intensities of crop and livestock–derived agricultural commodities produced in Latvia

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Sustainability Indicators for Dairy Cattle Farms in European Union Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Sustainability Indicators for Dairy Cattle Farms in European Union Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Climate and Biodiversity Credentials for Australian Grass-Fed Beef: A Review of Standards, Certification and Assurance Schemes

The impact of crop on GHG emissions from clay soils: case study of Latvia

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