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ScienceDaily: Financially rewarding farmers for using the best fertilizer management practices can simultaneously benefit water quality and help combat climate change, finds a new study by the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). The researchers conclude that setting up a "trading market," where farmers earn financial incentives for investing in eco-friendly techniques, would result in a double environmental benefit -- reducing fertilizer run-off destined for the Chesapeake......
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Rewarding eco-friendly farmers can help combat climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 2nd, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation