Indirect land-use changes can overcome carbon savings from biofuels in Brazil

By D. Lapola, R. Schaldach, Joseph Alcamo, A. Bondeau, J. Koch, Christina Koelking, J. Priess. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010

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Unprotecting the rare species: a niche‐based gap analysis for odonates in a core Cerrado area (2011, background): “There is a serious concern that biofuel plantations will develop over past pastures or accelerate the loss of Cerrado remnants (Lapola et al., 2010), especially because of the economic value of these commodities.”
Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity (2011, neutral): “bean biodiesel pushing the rangeland frontier into the Amazonian forest would be responsible for ≈40% and 60%, respectively, of the indirect deforestation by 2020 (68).”
Optimizing land use decision-making to sustain Brazilian agricultural profits, biodiversity and ecosystem services (2016, background): “It is currently comprised of mainly pasture that is being converted to sugarcane (Klink and Machado, 2005; Lapola et al., 2010).”
System complexity and policy integration challenges: The Brazilian Energy- Water-Food Nexus (2019, background): “It could potentially occupy land currently used for soybean crops or cattle, depending on prices, and trigger ever more complex cascades of ILUC and deforestation [46].”
Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm (2016, background): “Recently, there have been suggestions of promoting grain agriculture intensification (165) and higher intensification of cattle ranching to substantially increase meat production (22) in areas already deforested through recovery of degraded pastures.”
Beyond biofuels: assessing global land use for domestic consumption of biomass: a conceptual and empirical contribution to sustainable management of global resources. (2012, background): “Indirect land use change induced by the production of energy crops may be associated with worse impacts than direct land use change and over-compensate GHG emission savings, as shown by Lapola et al. (2010) for Brazil.”
Middle-range theories of land system change (2018, background): “Indirect land-use change (iLUC) is a land-use change in one place caused by a land-use change in another place (Lapola et al., 2010).”
Agricultural residue production and potentials for energy and materials services (2014, background): “It has been shown that fuel demand driven expansions may actually increase GHG emission [85] and introduce a carbon debt, which may take centuries to pay back depending on what kind of land is converted into agriculture [86,87].”
Exchange Rates, Soybean Supply Response, and Deforestation in South America (2012, background): “Evidence has already pointed to the environmental impacts of soybean agriculture in this region, both as a direct driver of forest loss and as an indirect driver, via indirect land use change, particularly with the displacement of cattle production to forest frontiers (Lapola et al., 2010; Walker et”
Renewable energy and biodiversity: Implications for transitioning to a Green Economy (2017, background): “biodiverse biomes such as the Cerrado and the Amazon [146,206,207].”