Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use

By Patrick Meyfroidt, Eric F. Lambin, K. Erb, Thomas W. Hertel. 2013

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change

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Global urbanization and food production in direct competition for land: Leverage places to mitigate impacts on SDG2 and on the Earth System (2019, background): “Asymmetric access can form the root of unfair social-ecological teleconnections (Meyfroidt et al., 2013; Seto et al., 2012), which causes indirect degradation of distant social-ecological systems (for instance food systems) affecting producers, consumers, institutions, and organizations intertwined ”
Measuring telecouplings in the global land system: A review and comparative evaluation of land footprint accounting methods (2015, neutral): “…supply chains and trade relations, changes in consumption patterns or the implementation of land-related policies in one country may cause production displacement or leakage effects and thus trigger changes in land use and management elsewhere (Lambin and Meyfroidt, 2011; Meyfroidt et al., 2013).”
Does intensification slow crop land expansion or encourage deforestation (2014, background): “…general consensus is that since around 1990, commercialization of agriculture to serve growing urban and global markets has been the major cause of cropland expansion, much of it at the expense of natural ecosystems (Rudel, 2007; DeFries et al., 2013; Hosonuma et al., 2012; Meyfroidt et al., 2013).”
Spatial modeling of agricultural land use change at global scale (2013, background): “Addressing the feedback between land use and ocioecological systems requires a globally consistent framework. econd, regions across the world are interconnected through global arkets and trade that can shift supply responses to demands for and across geopolitical regions (Meyfroidt et al., 2013).”
Drivers of changes in agricultural intensity in Europe (2016, result): “Population density played a minor role in describing yield and nitrogen trends, in line with case-study evidence suggesting a growing disconnect of population trends and agricultural development due to urbanisation and the globalisation of agricultural markets (van Vliet et al., 2015a; Meyfroidt et ”
Middle-range theories of land system change (2018, background): “Land-use displacement refers to the separation between places of production and consumption, but has been used in a broader sense to refer to geographic shifts of land use from one place to another (Meyfroidt et al., 2013).”
Multiple pathways of commodity crop expansion in tropical forest landscapes (2014, background): “culture can lead to a displacement of the former land use [8].”
Reserves and trade jointly determine exposure to food supply shocks (2016, background): “Recent studies have stressed the environmental implications of food trade in terms of loss of environmental stewardship resulting from the tele-coupling between agricultural production and consumer behavior or market volatility (DeFries et al 2010, Schmitz et al 2012, Meyfroidt et al 2013).”
The Emerging Soybean Production Frontier in Southern Africa: Conservation Challenges and the Role of South‐South Telecouplings (2016, background): “Conservation and land management policies implemented in one region may thus lead to a displacement of land-use pressure (Lenzen et al. 2012; Meyfroidt et al. 2013) and understanding these mechanisms is important for identifying effective conservation strategies (Grau et al. 2013).”
Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts (2019, background): “The main environmental costs of agricultural production are associated with soil and water pollution from pesticide applications and fertilizer overuse, as well as groundwater depletion, land use change, habitat destruction, and soil erosion (Montgomery 2007, Meyfroidt et al 2013).”
Rethinking Agricultural Trade Relationships in an Era of Globalization (2015, background): “Economic supply chain models are also commonly used to assess the environmental impacts of agricultural imports (Meyfroidt et al. 2013).”