Realistic payments could encourage farmers to adopt practices that sequester carbon

California Agriculture

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-95

  Howitt, Richard E ^a   Català Luque, Rosa ^b,c   De Gryze, Steven ^d   Wicks, Santhi ^e   Six, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ciudad Universitaria   (Spain)

^c Banca March   (Spain)

^d Terra Global Capital   (United States)

^e Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics   (Australia)

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EID: 80155211706     PISSN: 00080845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3733/ca.v063n02p91     Document Type: Article

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