Mapping Export-Oriented Crop Production

Levers, Christian; Müller, Daniel

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11105-2_5

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“…Given that PV is still an eclectic but rapidly evolving field, we present here a joint and encompassing analysis to better understand the use and effects of PV processes in a range of local contexts. We focus on the Global South because it is where colonial legacies (Jayaprakash and Hickey, 2019), weak institutional structures and continuous power struggles (Di Gregorio et al, 2019), as well as increasing pressures on natural assets (Levers et al, 2019) drive some of the most drastic impacts and rapid landscape transformations. It is also where the increasing global demand for natural assets are largely borne, especially by local stakeholders (Chaplin-Kramer et al, 2019;IPBES, 2019).…”

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Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South

Zafra‐Calvo

Balvanera

Pascual

et al. 2020

Global Environmental Change

140

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Plural valuation is about eliciting the diverse values of nature articulated by different stakeholders in order to inform decision making towards achieving more equitable and sustainable outcomes. We explore what approaches align with plural valuation on the ground, as well as how different social-ecological contexts play a role in translating plural valuation into decisions and outcomes. Based on a co-constructed analytical approach relying upon empirical information from ten cases from the Global South, we find that plural valuation contributes to equitable and sustainable outcomes if the valuation process: 1) is based on participatory elicitation approaches; 2) is framed with a clear action-oriented purpose; 3) provides space for marginalized stakeholders to articulate their values in ways that can be included in decisions; 4) is used as a tool to identify and help reconcile different cognitive models about human-nature relations held by different stakeholders; and 5) fosters open communication and collaboration between stakeholders. We also find that power asymmetries can hinder plural valuation. As interest and support for undertaking plural valuation grows, a deeper understanding is needed regarding how plural valuation may adapt to different purposes, approaches, and socialecological contexts to contributing to social equity and sustainability. Highlights• Plural valuation (PV) reveals diverse values of nature held by different stakeholders • PV's purpose, approach and context shape the achievement of equitable and sustainable outcomes • Participation, action-oriented purposes, inclusion of marginalized stakeholders and reconciliation of different cognitive models are crucial PV components • Power asymmetries can severely constrain PV's potential, which is strengthened by collaboration.

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Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South

Zafra‐Calvo

Balvanera

Pascual

et al. 2020

Global Environmental Change

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“…One example of this, is the glo-balization of agricultural production, where international trade chains accelerate habitat degradation in places far from the site of consumption (Friis et al 2015). It is widely studied that the large spatial footprint of export-oriented agriculture is responsible for large environmental costs, including local negative effects such as soil degradation, regional impacts due to excessive freshwater use or nutrient and pesticide runoff, and global concerns such as carbon emissions and biodiversity loss due to land conversion for agriculture (Levers and Müller 2019). Lenzen et al (2012), for example, showed that a significant number of species are threatened because of international trade along complex routes where consumers in developed countries (which we prefer to refer as North-Global here) cause threats to species through their demand for commodities that are produced in South-Global countries (such as coffee, tea, sugar, textiles, fish, and other manufactured goods).…”

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Socioenvironmental conflicts under COVID-19 pandemic and the need of historical-sociological perspectives in conservation science

Hirschfeld¹,

Faria²,

Gil³

et al. 2023

Ethnobio Conserv

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The pandemic of COVID-19 caused a global epidemiological, economic and social crisis. In the conservation sciences, several studies have focused efforts on understanding the effects of declining human activities on biodiversity, understanding the pandemic as an anthropogenic "pause"of global scale. But the impact of the pandemic was not the same for everyone. Different impacts are consequences of political and ethical questions about who and what can pause or be paused, according to what authority and under what conditions. Therefore, the historical asymmetrical relations of power in the World System are crucial to understanding environmental impacts and thinking about solutions in the post-pandemic world. This article discusses why historical local-global inequalities should be an indispensable reference variable for examining the different experiences caused by the pandemic in biodiversity, aiming at advancing the discussion about the society-nature relationship that the pandemic has spurred. To do so, we use the World-System Theory, initially proposed by Wallerstein, whose analytical categories allow us to situate nature conservation within broader economic, historical, and contemporary contexts. We argue for the understanding of biodiversity conservation in the context of the historical-sociological and global-local relations of the World-System. Finally, we discuss that the COVID-19 pandemic should be understood as an emergent phenomenon of the society-nature dynamic of the world-system.

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Determinants of changes in harvested area and yields of major crops in China

Yin,

Sun,

You

et al. 2024

Food Sec.

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Global agricultural production has risen substantially in recent decades and needs to rise further to meet the ever-growing food demand. While higher production can be directly attributed to agricultural expansion and intensification, the underlying factors behind the changes in cultivated areas and yields can be complicated and have not been well understood. China has dramatically increased its food production in past decades, especially during the initial approximately 30 years following the commencement of the rural reform in the late 1970s. The agricultural land use, including cropland areas, the composition of different crops and their spatial distributions, and crop yields have experienced substantial changes. In this research, we quantitatively analysed the changes in the harvested areas and yields of the four most widely cultivated crops in China (rice, wheat, maize, and soybean) at the county level from 1980 to 2011. We used spatial panel regressions to quantify the determinants of the observed changes in harvested area and yields for the major cultivation region of each of the four crops. Results showed that growth in population, gross domestic product, and urbanisation are positively associated with harvested areas. Higher usage of machinery and fertiliser inputs increased yields of the three cereal crops, while the harvested area of soybean decreased, particularly after China’s accession to the WTO. Our findings reveal how domestic urbanisation and changes in consumption patterns, coupled with the rising globalisation of agricultural markets, shaped China’s agricultural production and land use over the three decades. These insights shed light on the determinants of long-term agricultural dynamics and thus inform evidence-based decision-making.

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Mapping Export-Oriented Crop Production

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South

Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South

Socioenvironmental conflicts under COVID-19 pandemic and the need of historical-sociological perspectives in conservation science

Determinants of changes in harvested area and yields of major crops in China

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