Impacts of the global food system on terrestrial biodiversity from land use and climate change.

ABSTRACT: The global food system is a key driver of land-use and climate change which in turn drive biodiversity change. Developing sustainable food systems is therefore critical to reversing biodiversity loss. We use the multi-regional input-output model EXIOBASE to estimate the biodiversity impacts embedded within the global food system in 2011. Using models that capture regional variation in the sensitivity of biodiversity both to land use and climate change, we calculate the land-driven and greenhouse gas-driven footprints of food using two metrics of biodiversity: local species richness and rarity-weighted species richness. We show that the footprint of land area underestimates biodiversity impact in more species-rich regions and that our metric of rarity-weighted richness places a greater emph

SUBMITTER: Boakes EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11233703 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature