Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: Implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition
Reviewartikel, 2021

Global land systems are increasingly shaped by international trade of agricultural products. An increasing number of studies have quantified the implications of agricultural trade for single different aspects of land system sustainability. Bringing together studies across different sustainability dimensions, this review inves-tigates how global agricultural trade flows have affected land systems and resulting impacts on food and nutrient availability, natural habitat conversion, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem carbon storage. We show that the effects of trade on land systems are highly heterogeneous across regions and commodities, revealing both synergies and trade-offs between improved nutrition and environmental conservation. For instance, we find that while the concentration of cereal production in North America has spared land, the increased demand for tropical products induced by trade has negatively impacted tropical ecosystems. Based on the current state of knowledge, we identify six pathways for how future research can contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of how agricultural trade can positively contribute to meeting global sustainability goals.

Författare

Thomas Kastner

Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum

Abhishek Chaudhary

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Simone Gingrich

Universität für Bodenkultur

Alexandra Marques

PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Martin Persson

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Fysisk resursteori

Giorgio Bidoglio

Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum

Gaetane Le Provost

Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum

Florian Schwarzmueller

Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum

One Earth

25903330 (ISSN) 25903322 (eISSN)

Vol. 4 10 1425-1443

Analys av hur internationell handel med jordbruksprodukter bidrar till växthusgasutsläpp och förlust av biodiversitet från förändrad markanvändning i tropikerna

Formas (2014-1181), 2015-01-01 -- 2019-03-31.

Ämneskategorier

Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap

Jordbruksvetenskap

Miljöledning

Miljövetenskap

DOI

10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.006

Relaterade dataset

Data supplement for "Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity and human nutrition" [dataset]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5243353

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