Importing food damages domestic environment: Evidence from global soybean trade.

ABSTRACT: Protecting the environment and enhancing food security are among the world's Sustainable Development Goals and greatest challenges. International food trade is an important mechanism to enhance food security worldwide. Nonetheless, it is widely concluded that in international food trade importing countries gain environmental benefits, while exporting countries suffer environmental problems by using land and other resources to produce food for exports. Our study shows that international food trade can also lead to environmental pollution in importing countries. At the global level, our metaanalysis indicates that there was increased nitrogen (N) pollution after much farmland for domestically cultivated N-fixing soybeans in importing countries was converted to grow high N-demanding crops (wh

SUBMITTER: Sun J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6003527 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature