ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Assessing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
from Conventional Farms Based
on the Farm Accountancy Data Network
Alina Syp1, Dariusz Osuch2
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1Department of Bioeconomy and Systems Analysis, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation,
State Research Institute, 8 Czartoryskich Str., 24-100 Puławy, Poland
2Agricultural Accountancy Department, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics, National Research Institute,
20 Świętokrzyska Str., 00-002 Warszawa, Poland
Submission date: 2017-07-06
Final revision date: 2017-08-25
Acceptance date: 2017-08-26
Online publication date: 2018-02-06
Publication date: 2018-03-12
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2018;27(3):1261-1268
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ABSTRACT
Our paper uses the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines in combination
with the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) to estimate agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
at the farm level. The study adopts a cross-cutting approach that combines emissions related to different
categories (agriculture and energy/fuel). Overall, the aim was to assess the intensities of emissions from
conventional farms classified according to production type, economic size, and utilized agricultural area
(UAA). The results show that large variations in farms justify the micro approach to farm evaluation.
Applying the methodology revealed that conventional dairy farm types, medium-small (25≤€<50) and
medium-large (20<=UAA<30), were characterized by the highest GHG emissions intensity indexes
compared to other farm types and sizes. The FADN originally was developed for evaluating the income
of agricultural holdings and the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). However, our study
demonstrates that the current FADN database could also be used to provide indirect information on
environmental farm performance, identify differences between farm types, and give insight into the
environmental impact caused by the agricultural sectors in European countries. These results may also
be useful for farm advisors to benchmark some aspects of farm environmental performance using farm
financial data.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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