Van den Broeck, GoedeleSchreck-Cuvelier, VictoriaVictoriaSchreck-Cuvelier2025-07-012025-07-012025-06-0920252025-06-09https://hdl.handle.net/2078.2/43288Agriculture is not only highly vulnerable to climate change, but also a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, whose mitigation potential remains under-addressed. One of the EU’s key proposals to reduce emissions in this sector is the adoption of carbon farming schemes. Despite growing political interest and legislative efforts to promote such initiatives, important uncertainties persist regarding their socioeconomic impacts. A transparent and replicable systematic review that consolidates existing evidence is currently lacking. This thesis aims to fill that gap by conducting a systematic literature review of the socioeconomic impacts of carbon farming worldwide. Relevant publications were retrieved using selected databases, resulting in a final sample of 26 studies. These were analysed to identify and categorise potential impacts. The review reveals a wide diversity of methodological approaches, yet notably, no study conducted a quantitative impact assessment capable of demonstrating additionality. As additionality is a core criterion for the sustainability of carbon farming, this absence underlines the need for more robust evaluations. Such assessments are essential to strengthen the design and implementation of carbon farming schemes, ensuring they effectively support all stakeholders, particularly farmers, and that agriculture contributes meaningfully to climate objectives.Carbon farmingsocioeconomicsystematic literature reviewtext::thesis::master thesis