Agricultural trade and virtual land use: The case of China's crop trade

Qiang, Wenli; Liu, Aimin; Cheng, Shikun; Kastner, Thomas; Xie, Gaogang

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.12.017

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“…Land footprints have also been assessed as "virtual" land flows (e.g. Würtenberger et al 2006, van der Spleen 2009, von Witzke and Noleppa 2010, Köellner and van der Sleen 2011, Fader et al 2011, Qiang et al 2013, Meier et al 2014. Von Witzke and Noleppa (2010) define virtual land as the amount of land that is required to produce one unit of a given agricultural good.…”

Section: Background: "Footprint" Accountingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A number of studies look at the dietary patterns associated with the land footprints of specific countries or groups of countries (e.g. Gerbens-- Leenes and Nonhebel 2005, Fader et al 2013, Kastner et al 2013, Meier et al 2014. Other studies have focused on specific countries, like China (Qiang et al 2013 for both primary crops and processed products), Austria (Kastner et al 2011 using the example of soy), Turkey (Bruckner et al 2012), Switzerland (Würtenberger et al 2006 using the example of wheat, Zah et al 2010), Germany (Bringezu et al 2009b) and the EU (Van der Sleen 2009, Von Witzke and Noleppa 2011, Lugschitz et al 2011, Bringezu et al 2012, Arto et al 2012, Weinzettel et al 2013, Yu et al 2013, Bruckner et al 2014.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The land footprint of the EU bioeconomy: Monitoring tools, gaps and needs

2015

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The bioeconomy is gaining growing attention as a perceived win--win strategy for environment and economy in the EU. However, the EU already has a disproportionately high global cropland footprint compared to the world average, and uses more cropland than domestically available to supply its demand for agricultural products. There is a risk that uncontrolled growth of the bioeconomy will increase land use pressures abroad. For that reason, a monitoring system is needed to account for the global land use of European consumption. The aim of this paper is to take a closer look at the tools needed to monitor global cropland footprints, as well as the targets needed to benchmark development. This paper reviews recent developments in land footprint accounting approaches and applies the method of global land use accounting to calculate the global cropland footprint of the EU--27 for the years between 2000 and 2011. It finds a slight decrease in per capita cropland footprints over the past decade (of around 1% annually, reaching 0.29 ha/cap in 2011) and advocates promoting a further decrease in per capita cropland requirements (of around 2% annually) to reach global land use targets for keeping consumption within the safe operating space of planetary boundaries by 2030. It argues that strategic land reduction targets may still go hand in hand with the growth of a smart, innovative and sustainable bioeconomy by reinforcing the need for policies that support greater efficiency across the life--cycle and reduce wasteful and excessive consumption practices. Recommendations for further improving land footprint accounting are given. Highlights• Research to account for land footprints has increased recently• Between 2000 and 2011, cropland area within the EU--27 decreased (by 6.6%)• Cropland requirements associated with imports and exports increased (by 2.9% & 10%)• The EU required 20 to 27% more cropland than domestically available to meet demand• Results are generally in the same order of magnitude as other studies

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Section: Background: "Footprint" Accountingmentioning

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Section: Background: "Footprint" Accountingmentioning

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The land footprint of the EU bioeconomy: Monitoring tools, gaps and needs

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“…For example, a recently published article discusses some alleged flaws of land footprint calculations for China based on MRIO analysis (Kastner et al, 2014b). Physical accounting approaches revealed significant net imports of embodied land (Qiang et al, 2013), while MRIO-based calculations show net exports Yu et al, 2013). Both MRIO studies considered by Kastner et al (2014b) use GTAP, which shows significant intermediate flows of about 20% of agricultural outputs, and even more for highly land-intensive animal products, to various export-oriented manufacturing industries.…”

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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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“…Embodied cultivated land intensity of a specified sector is defined as the sum of direct and indirect cultivated land use in the whole supply chain to produce per unit monetary value of the targeted good/service (Yang et al, 2013), which is different from EF aggregating different kinds of land resources into one common denominator (Qiang et al, 2013). The calculation of embodied cultivated land flows relies on a database including the embodied intensities of every commodity within the economy.…”

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“…To cope with this, the Chinese government employs legislative measures to impose a "red line" restriction, i.e., 120 million hectares, for its cultivated land (Grassini et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2012). However, driven by the increasing food demand, expanding biofuel production as well as the rapid industrialization and urbanization in recent years, China is under unprecedented pressures on how to properly allocate its scarce cultivated land resources to meet future demands for goods and services (Qiang et al, 2013). Therefore, the research on China's cultivated land use becomes an urgent demand in the research field of land use.…”

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Embodied cultivated land use in China 1987–2007

Guo

Shen

Chen

et al. 2014

Ecological Indicators

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Abstract.The recent trend of rapid urbanization draws more and more concerns on the land use pattern in China. This study employs an ecological input-output model to reveal the Guo S., Shen G.Q.P., Chen Z.M., . Embodied cultivated land use in China 1987 to trade pattern, the Agriculture sector is China's largest net importer of cultivated land, in contrast to the Textile sector as the largest net exporter. When China is shown to be a net embodied cultivated land exporter throughout the concerned years, the variation of embodied cultivated land balance is closely related to the country's international trade pattern.

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Agricultural trade and virtual land use: The case of China's crop trade

Cited by 129 publications

References 36 publications

The land footprint of the EU bioeconomy: Monitoring tools, gaps and needs

The land footprint of the EU bioeconomy: Monitoring tools, gaps and needs

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

Embodied cultivated land use in China 1987–2007

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