Rethinking Agricultural Trade Relationships in an Era of Globalization

By G. MacDonald, K. Brauman, Shipeng Sun, K. Carlson, E. Cassidy, James Gerber, Paul C. West. 2015

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Plant Science

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In Ecology

1. L. Rosa
2. Paolo D'Odorico
3. Maria Cristina Rulli
4. N. Mueller
5. J. Antle
6. J. Dell’Angelo
7. C. Funk
8. J. Carr

In Environmental Engineering

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2. Mario Herrero
3. Paolo D'Odorico
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5. Brian C. O'Neill
6. J. Dell’Angelo
7. J. Carr
8. Samir Suweis

In Plant Science

1. Paolo D'Odorico
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3. L. Rosa
4. James Gerber
5. Christopher B. Barrett
6. Marc F. Bellemare
7. Francesco Laio
8. Thomas Kastner

Citations in the corpus

• Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (2015, background): “In addition, the more processed a product is, the higher its value in trade, though the underlying nutritional composition may not be much changed (MacDonald et al. 2015).”
• The role of trade in the greenhouse gas footprints of EU diets (2018, background): “commodity prices are not automatically related to agro-environmental dimensions of food, and monetary values can vary while biophysical metrics remain fixed (Kastner et al., 2014b; MacDonald et al., 2015).”
• Nitrogen use in the global food system: past trends and future trajectories of agronomic performance, pollution, trade, and dietary demand (2016, background): “Trade relationships are thought to be important for economic development in some developing nations (Godfray et al 2010), for example in countries where export-oriented crop production is responsible for large monetary transfers (MacDonald et al 2015).”
• Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts (2019, background): “Such metrics may offer complementary information on causes and implications of trade as well as on how countries’ allocation of water and cropland resources determine the globalization patterns of agriculture and trade (Galli et al 2013,MacDonald et al 2015,WiedmannandLenzen2018).”
• Reserves and trade jointly determine exposure to food supply shocks (2016, background): “…of environmental impacts (Galloway et al 2007, O’Bannon et al 2014), virtual water and land trade (Hoekstra and Chapagain 2008, Fader et al 2011), and the overall geographic disconnection between consumers and the environment that supports them (Carr et al 2013,MacDonald et al 2015).”
• Impacts of European livestock production: nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, water eutrophication and biodiversity (2015, background): “Brazil and USA representing 84% of the total net imports of EU27 (see figure 2; for a comparison of EU27 and global agricultural structure and emissions see supplementary information S5) that entails significant trade of embodied cropland surface (MacDonald et al 2015).”
• Food self-sufficiency: Making sense of it, and when it makes sense (2017, unknown): “…highlighted the way in which the high degree of concentration in sources of food imports can result in a more fragile global food system that is highly vulnerable to instability triggered by both natural and economic disturbances (Suweis et al., 2015; Puma et al., 2015; MacDonald et al., 2015).”