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Improving Environmental Quality in South Florida through Silvopasture: An Economic Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

G. Andrew Stainback ,
Janaki R.R. Alavalapati ,
Ram K. Shrestha ,
Sherry Larkin  and
Grace Wong
G. Andrew Stainback
Affiliation:
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Janaki R.R. Alavalapati
Affiliation:
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Ram K. Shrestha
Affiliation:
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Sherry Larkin
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Grace Wong
Affiliation:
Conservation International, Washington, DC
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Abstract

A dynamic optimization model is used to compare the profitability of silvopasture with traditional cattle ranching in south Florida. Silvopasture can reduce phosphorus runoff from cattle ranching—a major environmental concern for Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades. Silvopasture can also sequester carbon, thereby offsetting global climate change. The effectiveness of phosphorus runoff taxes and carbon sequestration payments for inducing landowners to adopt silvopasture is investigated. We find that phosphorus taxes alone would not induce landowners to adopt silvopasture. However, payments to landowners to sequester carbon, alone or in conjunction with phosphorus runoff taxes, can make silvopasture financially competitive with traditional ranching.

Keywords

carbon sequestrationcattle ranchingFaustmann modelglobal climate changephosphorus runoffsilvopastureslash pinetaxQ57Q23
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , August 2004 , pp. 481 - 489
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2004

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