MARCHÉS CARBONE AGRICOLES

The document critiques agricultural carbon offsets, stating they risk harming farmers' autonomy, fail to provide permanent carbon sequestration, and may actually increase overall emissions. It recommends that governments and international bodies exclude land-based offsets from carbon markets and instead fund agroecological transitions.

• Agricultural carbon offset mechanisms can undermine food security and farmer autonomy by incentivizing specific industrial practices or converting cropland into tree plantations, while increasing the risk of land grabbing through financialization.
• The climate impact of these offsets is questionable due to the inability to guarantee the permanence of carbon sequestration, as carbon stored in soils or trees can be released by human activity, natural disasters, or climate change.
• Measurement tools for soil carbon are unreliable; some rely on costly sampling that cannot be scaled, while others use mathematical equations and default factors that ignore local soil and land-use variations.
• Some projects use 'carbon intensity' metrics rather than absolute emission reductions, which can create the illusion of progress even if total emissions increase due to expanded production or larger livestock herds.
• Carbon offsets often lock in industrial agricultural models and high-cost infrastructures, diverting funds from more sustainable and proven alternatives like agroecology.
• Offset projects often focus on on-farm emissions while ignoring the significant greenhouse gas contributions from upstream and downstream activities, such as the production of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

APA

Castagné, M., Lickel, S., Ritter, T., & Dufrasne, G. (n.d.). MARCHÉS CARBONE AGRICOLES. Carbon Market Watch. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Marches-carbone-agricoles.pdf

Chicago

Castagné, Manon, Sara Lickel, Tara Ritter, and Gilles Dufrasne. MARCHÉS CARBONE AGRICOLES. Carbon Market Watch, n.d. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Marches-carbone-agricoles.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{castagnndmarchs, author = {Castagné, Manon and Lickel, Sara and Ritter, Tara and Dufrasne, Gilles}, title = {{MARCHÉS CARBONE AGRICOLES}}, institution = {Carbon Market Watch}, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Marches-carbone-agricoles.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }