Banca de DEFESA: FERDNANDO MARIANO BRITO SILVA

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STUDENT : FERDNANDO MARIANO BRITO SILVA
DATE: 22/02/2024
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Online
TITLE:

Modeling a protocol for preparing a greenhouse gas inventory for family farms

KEY WORDS:

GHG, AFOLU, Organic Agriculture.

PAGES: 57
BIG AREA: Ciências Agrárias
AREA: Agronomia
SUBÁREA: Ciência do Solo
SPECIALTY: Fertilidade do Solo e Adubação
SUMMARY:

SILVA, Ferdnando Mariano Brito Silva. Access to the carbon market for organic farms: A case study at Embrapa Km 47's Fazendinha Agroecológica". 2024. 44 pg. Dissertation (Mestrado em Agricultura Orgânica). Agronomy Institute, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, 2024

 

Global warming has increased the urgency of finding solutions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by human activity. In Brazil, agriculture and land use, including land use change and deforestation for agricultural expansion, contribute significantly to these emissions. This is due to enteric fermentation and deforestation to open up new areas. As a response to this challenge, initiatives such as carbon credit trading have emerged, encouraging practices that reduce GHG emissions. In this context, it is important to assess the possibility of involving organic farms in this process, since their activities are recognized as low carbon, especially due to the use of organic inputs. However, in order to participate in the negotiation of carbon credits, it is necessary to obtain certification through audits with specific methodologies for calculating greenhouse gas balances on farms. The aim of this study was to analyze the technical feasibility of a carbon credit project at Fazendinha Agroecológica Km 47 located in Seropédica – RJ, using the Agriculture Land Management (ALM) and Afforestation, Reforestation, Revegetation (ARR) methodologies of the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS Standard). The study was divided into five stages: eligibility, assessment of the baseline scenario, additionality, financial viability and contributions on the opportunities and obstacles for organic producers to participate in the carbon market. The results indicated that Fazendinha Agroecológica is eligible to develop a carbon credit project, as it meets the criterion of not having deforested its land in the last 10 years. As for the baseline scenario, Fazendinha's greenhouse gas balance shows an annual average of 41 tCO2e in emissions, with the greatest contribution from livestock emissions through enteric fermentation (15 tCO2e) and pasture emissions (15 tCO2e). Thus, there is a possibility of generating credits at Fazendinha if technologies are implemented that reduce emissions or sequester carbon from the atmosphere, such as integrated crop-livestock (ILP) or crop-livestock-forest (ILPF) systems in livestock farming, and agroforestry systems (SAF) in agricultural production, which present additionality in relation to the methodologies, and enable a low-carbon scenario. However, the high cost of auditing can be an obstacle, indicating the need to group properties into a single project to make it more viable. The conclusion is that it is technically possible to develop a carbon credit project for organic farms, but it is worth expanding the analysis to other carbon credit certification standards, in addition to the VCS Standard, in order to find a lower cost for auditing and certification. Furthermore, with a view to expanding the participation of organic farms in the climate agenda, it is essential to create public climate adaptation policies to facilitate access to financial resources and compensation mechanisms that can promote access to climate resilience on these farms.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ***.960.133-** - EDNALDO DA SILVA ARAÚJO - EMBRAPA
Externo à Instituição - CARLOS VALÉRIO AGUIAR GOMES - UFPA
Externo à Instituição - Stoecio Malta Ferreira Maia