Evaluation of Agriculture Eco-Efficiency in Latvia
Energy Procedia 2017
Agita Gancone, Jeļena Pubule, Marika Rošā, Dagnija Blumberga

Agriculture is the second most significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with approximately 24 % of Latvia’s total GHG emissions in 2014. Emissions from agricultural soils contributed major share of the total emissions – 59.6 %, enteric fermentation emissions was second largest source – 32 %. The share of manure management emissions was evaluated as 7.5 % of total emissions in the sector, remaining 0.9 % of emissions refer to liming and urea application. GHG emissions increased in 2014 by 3.3 % comparing to 2013 due to increase of cattle, sheep and fur animal numbers. Statistics also showed increase of synthetic N fertilizer consumption approximately by 4.6 %, sown area by 0.3 % and lime application to soils 42.9 % [1]. Bearing in mind significant share of agricultural emissions in total GHG emissions in Latvia and the growing emission trend the additional attention is necessary for evaluation of impacts of agriculture on the environment. The purpose of this study is to explore indicators for assessing eco-efficiency in the Latvian agriculture sector. First the paper describes methods which can be used for measuring eco-efficiency, second availability of activity data and third, presents calculations of selected indicators for eco-efficiencies.


Atslēgas vārdi
GHG emissions; ecoefficiency; agriculture; indicators
DOI
10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.318
Hipersaite
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610217338389

Gancone, A., Pubule, J., Rošā, M., Blumberga, D. Evaluation of Agriculture Eco-Efficiency in Latvia. Energy Procedia, 2017, Vol. 128, 309.-315.lpp. ISSN 1876-6102. Pieejams: doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.318

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