Contract Design to Sequester Carbon in Agricultural Soils

Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline and Sébastien Roussel

Abstract: According to several studies, agricultural carbon sequestration could be a relatively low cost opportunity to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration and a promising means that could be institutionalised. However the potential for additional carbon quantities in agricultural soils is critical and comes from the agricultural firms behaviour with regards to land heterogeneity. In this paper, our aim is to set incentive mechanisms to enhance carbon sequestration by agricultural firms. A policymaker has to arrange incentives as agricultural firms have private information and do not spontaneously switch to the required practices. Moreover, a novelty in our paper is to show that the potential for additional carbon sequestration is similar to an exhaustible resource. As a result, we construct an intertemporal principal-agent model with adverse selection. Our contribution is to specify contracts in order to induce truthful revelation by the firms regarding their intrinsic characteristics towards carbon sequestration, while analytically characterizing the optimal path to sequester carbon as an exhaustible resource.

Keywords: land-use; incentives; Adverse selection; agriculture; carbon sequestration; usages des terres; incitations; séquestration du carbone; sélection adverse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03
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Published in 2010

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Working Paper: Contract Design to Sequester Carbon in Agricultural Soils (2010)
Working Paper: Contract Design to Sequester Carbon in Agricultural Soils (2010)
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