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

ABSTRACT: 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 (+23%) from 1986 to 2009. Greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) associated with fertilizer and manure

SUBMITTER: de Ruiter H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4759806 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature