Accounting methods for international land-related leakage and distant deforestation drivers

Henders, Sabine; Ostwald, Madelene

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.01.005

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“…The companies in our sample invested primarily in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (31 out of 118 investments; of 82 companies, 18 invested in two or more provinces), followed by Santiago del Estero (21), Chaco (15), and Salta (14) in Argentina (Fig. 1B).…”

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Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano

Waroux

Garrett

Heilmayr

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Growing demand for agricultural commodities is causing the expansion of agricultural frontiers onto native vegetation worldwide. Agribusiness companies linking these frontiers to distant spaces of consumption through global commodity chains increasingly make zero-deforestation pledges. However, production and land conversion are often carried out by less-visible local and regional actors that are mobile and responsive to new agricultural expansion opportunities and legal constraints on land use. With more stringent deforestation regulations in some countries, we ask whether their movements are determined partly by differences in land-use policies, resulting in "deforestation havens." We analyze the determinants of investment decisions by agricultural companies in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano, a region that has become the new deforestation "hot spot" in South America. We test whether companies seek out less-regulated forest areas for new agricultural investments. Based on interviews with 82 companies totaling 2.5 Mha of properties, we show that, in addition to proximity to current investments and the availability of cheap forestland, lower deforestation regulations attract investments by companies that tend to clear more forest, mostly cattle ranching operations, and that lower enforcement attracts all companies. Avoiding deforestation leakage requires harmonizing deforestation regulations across regions and commodities and promoting sustainable intensification in cattle ranching.pollution haven | leakage | land-use change | soy | cattle

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“…Existing assessments of land-use-related leakage are not sufficiently robust to support policies (14,15). Most studies also do not uncover how environmental regulations affect decision making by economic actors.…”

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Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano

Waroux

Garrett

Heilmayr

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

116

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“…Most global consumption-based accounts on CO 2 emissions are estimated from multi-region input-output analyses (MRIOs) and consider CO 2 emissions of the economy as a whole. More recently, the effects of international trade on other environmental indicators such as land use have also been included in consumptionbased MRIO accounts [11]; however, there is an ongoing debate as to whether these MRIO models are suited to examine land-use displacements, or whether biophysical models are better suited [12][13][14]. A possible reason for these at times divergent accounts of land-use displacements is the differences in metrics underlying the accounting.…”

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Global cropland and greenhouse gas impacts of UK food supply are increasingly located overseas

Ruiter

Macdiarmid

Matthews

et al. 2016

J. R. Soc. Interface.

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Producing sufficient, healthy food for a growing world population amid a changing climate is a major challenge for the twenty-first century. Agricultural trade could help alleviate this challenge by using comparative productivity advantages between countries. However, agricultural trade has implications for national food security and could displace environmental impacts from developed to developing countries. This study illustrates the global effects resulting from the agricultural trade of a single country, by analysing the global cropland and greenhouse gas impacts of the UK's food and feed supply. The global cropland footprint associated with the UK food and feed supply increased by 2022 kha (þ23%) from 1986 to 2009. Greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) associated with fertilizer and manure application, and rice cultivation remained relatively constant at 7.9 Mt CO 2 e between 1987 and 2008. Including GHGE from land-use change, however, leads to an increase from 19.1 in 1987 to 21.9 Mt CO 2 e in 2008. The UK is currently importing over 50% of its food and feed, whereas 70% and 64% of the associated cropland and GHGE impacts, respectively, are located abroad. These results imply that the UK is increasingly reliant on external resources and that the environmental impact of its food supply is increasingly displaced overseas.

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“…Hybrid accounting uses a combination of both. An alternative nomenclature used in a review by Henders and Ostwald (2014) denotes monetary approaches as inputoutput analysis and physical methods as material flow analysis.…”

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“…In their review of accounting methods for land-related leakage and distant deforestation drivers, Henders and Ostwald (2014) conclude that all available accounting approaches involve uncertainties. Varying results and large uncertainties impede and affect decision and policy making through eroding trust in the available accounting methods.…”

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Measuring telecouplings in the global land system: A review and comparative evaluation of land footprint accounting methods

Brückner

Fischer

Tramberend

et al. 2015

Ecological Economics

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Accounting methods for international land-related leakage and distant deforestation drivers

Cited by 45 publications

References 65 publications

Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano

Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano

Global cropland and greenhouse gas impacts of UK food supply are increasingly located overseas

Measuring telecouplings in the global land system: A review and comparative evaluation of land footprint accounting methods

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