Total global agricultural land footprint associated with UK food supply 1986–2011

Ruiter, Henri de; Macdiarmid, Jennie I.; Matthews, Robin; Kastner, Thomas; Lynd, Lee R.; Smith, Pete

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.01.007

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“…These drivers operate through specific human activities (Moran & Kanemoto, 2017) and, to mitigate their impacts, it is essential to quantify and map the connections between the consumption that drives habitat loss and its biodiversity impact (Lambin & Meyfroidt 2011). In this study, we focused on soy production as the proximate cause of habitat loss, which is influenced by remote drivers such as consumption patterns (Croft, West, & Green, 2018;de Ruiter et al, 2017), production shortages elsewhere (Godfray et al, 2010) and population growth (Dasgupta & Ehrlich, 2013).…”

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“…Approaches based on species' area of habitat (AOH; previously known as extent of suitable habitat-ESH; Brooks et al, 2019) show promise in the development of biodiversity impact metrics because they can integrate spatially explicit information on the ecology of individual species with data on the distribution of anthropogenic land use (De Baan et al, 2015;Rondinini et al, 2011). Unlike approaches that estimate potential regional or local loss of species richness, AOH maps are also adaptable to different spatial scales while retaining species-specific information (de Baan, Mutel, Curran, Hellweg, & Koellner, 2013;Rondinini et al, 2011). Specifically, they can quantify the relative change in AOH arising from land conversion, which allows species-specific impacts associated with a particular human land-use change to be calculated (De Baan et al, 2015).…”

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“…. relative to their land-use footprint" [39], and that approximately 38% of total UK crop supply goes towards animal products [40]. However, (1) as not all livestock feed is produced in the UK, some of these impacts would be shared with other countries, and (2) the data sources found did not specify the total UK crop supply going towards beef production/cattle farming, only all animal products.…”

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Impacts of Reducing UK Beef Consumption Using a Revised Sustainable Diets Framework

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The impact of beef consumption on sustainability is a complex and evolving area, as sustainability covers many areas from human nutrient adequacy to ecosystem stability. Three sustainability assessment frameworks have been created to help policy makers unpack the complexities of sustainable food systems and healthy sustainable dietary change. However, none of these frameworks have yet to be applied to a case study or individual policy issue. This paper uses a hybrid version of the sustainability assessment frameworks to investigate the impact of reducing beef consumption (with a concurrent increase in consumption of plant-based foods, with a focus on legumes) on sustainability at a UK level. The aim of this paper is to understand the applicability of these overarching frameworks at the scale of an individual policy. Such an assessment is important, as this application of previously high-level frameworks to individual policies makes it possible to summarise, at a glance, the various co-benefits and trade-offs associated with a given policy, which may be of particular value in terms of stakeholder decision-making. We find that many of the proposed metrics found within the sustainability assessment frameworks are difficult to implement at an individual issue level; however, overall they show that a reduction in beef consumption and an increase in consumption of general plant-based foods, with a focus around legumes production, would be expected to be strongly beneficial in five of the eight overarching measures which were assessed.

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“…As a result of an increasing global population, accelerated land conversion to cultivated landscapes is being driven, in part, by increased demands for agricultural commodities (de Ruiter et al, ; Haberl, ). Expansion of land conversion has diminished grasslands worldwide, and rates of grassland conversion to row‐crop agriculture have accelerated within the Northern Great Plains (NPG) region of the United States and Canada during the past decade (Foley et al, ; Ramankutty & Foley, ; Ramankutty, Evan, Monfreda, & Foley, ; Wimberly et al, ).…”

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A spatial landscape scale approach for estimating erosion, water quantity, and quality in response to South Dakota grassland conversion

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Conversion of grassland to cropland has been linked to many complex environmental challenges in natural resource systems. South Dakota is a mosaic of grasslands, wetlands, and cropland that has experienced tremendous land use change over the past 10 years and is expected to continue for the next 50 years. The rate of future conversion may vary greatly depending on economic, policy, and social factors. Land conversion influences cumulative erosion from arable soils which could impact hydrologic flow and water quality.Quantifying future changes for these three externalities is important to understand the possible long-term consequences of grassland conversion. A system dynamics model was developed to address the dynamic complexity of these natural resource systems by capturing its structure and behavior and was able to adequately replicate historical changes in erosion, discharge, and total suspended solids from 1947 to 2012. Recommendations for resource managers• Resource managers should apply this tool for problems that require quantitative assessment of environmental Present address Hector M. Menendez III, Department of Animal Science, Kleberg Center, Texas A&M University-College Station, TAMU 2471, College Station, TX 77843.consequences to be coupled with economic, policy, and social factors that influence long-term land-use change decisions.• The model can be used to evaluate alternative policies and indicate the magnitude of change for three critical environmental factors using different long-term grassland conversion, climate, and tillage (conservation and conventional) patterns.• Model output of four spatially explicit water-catchments that span South Dakota from east to west: Big Sioux, James, Bad, and Belle Fourche rivers can be used to quantify differences between unique natural resource systems.• The model is adequate for the purpose of generating forecast for future annual erosion (t·ha −1 ·year −1 ), discharge (million cubic meters), and total suspended solids (mg/L) under different potential future grassland conversion rates and should be leveraged by managers to gain insight into future landscape scale consequences of grassland conversion in South Dakota.• Potential for additional natural resource applications.

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Total global agricultural land footprint associated with UK food supply 1986–2011

Cited by 60 publications

References 32 publications

A practical approach to measuring the biodiversity impacts of land conversion

A practical approach to measuring the biodiversity impacts of land conversion

Impacts of Reducing UK Beef Consumption Using a Revised Sustainable Diets Framework

A spatial landscape scale approach for estimating erosion, water quantity, and quality in response to South Dakota grassland conversion

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