Higher Levels of No-Till Agriculture Associated with Lower PM in the Corn Belt

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dc.creatorBehrer, A. Patrick
dc.creatorLobell, David
dc.date2022-10-31T22:36:02Z
dc.date2022-10-31T22:36:02Z
dc.date2022-10
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:31:36Z
dc.descriptionNo-till approaches to agricultural soil management have been encouraged as a means of reducing soil erosion, reducing water pollution, and increasing carbon sequestration. An understudied additional benefit of no-till approaches may be improvements in local air quality due to reductions in both machinery use and dust emissions. This paper leverages recent advances in remote sensing and air pollution modeling to examine this question at a landscape scale. Combining data on daily fine particulate matter levels with satellite measures of no-till uptake since 2005, the paper shows a strong association between increasing adoption of no-till agricultural practices and reductions in county average fine particulate matter pollution over more than 28 million hectares of cropland in the U.S. Corn Belt. The reduction in local pollution implies substantial monetary benefits from reductions in mortality that are roughly one-fourth as large as the carbon benefits. The benefits of mortality reductions are also, by themselves, nearly equal to the current monetary costs of subsidizing no-till practices.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099716310202219826/IDU0dbfb27f209809048010b06908019177c898b
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/38234
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10216
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/405313
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Papers;10216
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectAIR POLLUTION
dc.subjectCONSERVATION AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectNO-TILL
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE EMISSIONS
dc.subjectREMOTE SENSING
dc.subjectPARTICULATE AIR POLLUTION
dc.subjectSOIL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
dc.subjectCARBON REDUCTION
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectCARBON MITIGATION
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE POLICY
dc.subjectCARBON SEQUESTRATION
dc.subjectMORTALITY REDUCTION
dc.titleHigher Levels of No-Till Agriculture Associated with Lower PM in the Corn Belt
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
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