Cropland Footprints of Australian Dietary Choices.

ABSTRACT: Food systems vitally depend on croplands, which are a scarce natural resource. Croplands are also heterogeneous, differing in productive capability and in environmental context. Some are in regions of high biodiversity conservation importance, others in regions vulnerable to food insecurity. In this study, life cycle assessment was used to quantify cropland scarcity footprints, cropland biodiversity footprints and cropland malnutrition footprints for 9341 individual Australian adult daily diets. Dietary cropland scarcity footprints averaged 7.1 m²yr-e person^-1 day^-1, exceeding a target of 6.1 m²yr-e person^-1 day^-1, consistent with the proposed global cropland planetary boundary of 15% of the ice-free land area. Discretionary

SUBMITTER: Ridoutt B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7282022 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature