A review of the interactions between biodiversity, agriculture, climate change, and international trade: research and policy priorities

Ortiz, Andrea Monica D.; Outhwaite, Charlotte L.; Dalin, Carole; Newbold, Tim

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.12.008

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“…It will be important to more comprehensively assess how trade alters whole sets of ecosystem functions and services and also how trade benefits from them. 133,134 Recent studies of how trade depends on pollination services in the exporting countries' land systems are an example for such endeavors. 135,136 As it becomes increasingly evident that ecosystem functions and services are interacting with each other and should be as-sessed in concert, 137 it is important to assess how trade affects ecosystem multi-functionality and stability.…”

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

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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 investigates 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.

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

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“…Finally, biodiversity conservation greatly contributes to mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change (Kremen and Merenlender, 2018), the other major objective of the CAP reform along with biodiversity conservation. Particular attention should be paid to synergies and possible trade-offs between these two major objectives (Ortiz et al, 2021).…”

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Environmental Objectives of Spanish Agriculture: Scientific Guidelines for their Effective Implementation under the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2030

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“…Using systems thinking (Figure 3), we show the interconnections among the seven drivers of zoonotic diseases, climate change, and biodiversity along with factors that influence the transmission of COVID-19 and other zoonotic diseases, such as urbanization (Connolly et al, 2020), population density (Simpson et al, 2020), and international trade, which has been linked to invasive species introductions (Gallardo et al, 2015). Causal loop diagrams and systems thinking are useful for representing interconnections, causes, and effects in complex systems (Lezak & Thibodeau, 2016;Palmberg et al, 2017) and have been used to represent the connections in the interacting domains of the environment, agriculture, climate change, and international trade (Ortiz et al, 2021). This diagram will undoubtedly simplify the complex and nuanced connections between these domains.…”

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Implications of COVID-19 on progress in the UN Conventions on biodiversity and climate change

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2020 was to be a landmark year for setting targets to stop biodiversity loss and prevent dangerous climate change. However, COVID-19 has caused delays to the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the 26 th COP of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Negotiations on the Global Biodiversity Framework and the second submission of Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement were due to take place at these COPs. There is uncertainty as to how the COVID-19 disruption will affect the negotiations, whether parties will pursue more ambitious actions or take a weaker stance on issues. Our policy analysis shows there are broad opportunities for climate and biodiversity frameworks to better respond to COVID-19, by viewing future pandemics, biodiversity loss,

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A review of the interactions between biodiversity, agriculture, climate change, and international trade: research and policy priorities

Cited by 174 publications

References 139 publications

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

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

Environmental Objectives of Spanish Agriculture: Scientific Guidelines for their Effective Implementation under the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2030

Implications of COVID-19 on progress in the UN Conventions on biodiversity and climate change

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