Consumption patterns and their effects on land required for food

By P. Gerbens-Leenes, S. Nonhebel. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, General Health Professions, Plant Science

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Cross-national meat and fish consumption: exploring the effects of modernization and ecological context (2004, background): “Food consumption patterns, particularly meat and fish consumption, have serious consequences for environmental sustainability (Gerbens-Leenes and Nonhebel, 2002; Goodland, 1997;White, 2000).”
Virtual land use and agricultural trade: Estimating environmental and socio-economic impacts (2006, background): “Land quantity, water use, and energy use are examples of physical indicators (i) proposed for the assessment of food production systems (Gerbens-Leenes and Nonhebel, 2002; Gerbens-Leenes et al., 2003).”
Food sustainability: Diverging interpretations (2004, background): “Sanderine Nonhebel (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) focused on land use and energy (Gerben-Leenes and Nonhebel, 2002).”
Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China (2008, background): “First, the caloric energy requirements are hypothesized to be met only by the consumption of wheat (Gerbens-Leenes and Nonhebel, 2002); second, according to the Chinese Nutrition Society (CNS), at least 2400 and 2100 kcal cap−1 day−1 of energy is required for male and female Chinese adults, respecti”
Linking Globalization to Local Land Uses: How Eco-Consumers and Gourmands are Changing the Colombian Coffee Landscapes (2013, background): “Demand can trigger direct land changes when natural ecosystems are cleared to make room for cash crops, timber plantations, or cattle ranching (Gerbens-Leenes & Nonhebel, 2002; Gibbs et al., 2010; Meyfroidt, Rudel, & Lambin, 2010).”
LCA of soybean meal (2008, background): “Analyzing the environmental consequences of changes in food consumption ( Gerbens-Leenes & Nonhebel 2002 ) or livestock production systems often involves changes in the demand for soybean meal (Cederberg & Mattson 2000, Eriksson et al. 2004, de Boer 2003, Cederberg & Flysjo 2004, Basset-Mens & van d”
Measuring the Sustainability of the Food Supply Chain: A Case Study of the UK (2007, background): “The key public concerns about operations and impacts the modern food system inter alia include the following: (a) impacts of the food system on the natural environment such as soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, inefficient land use, water degradation, as well as escalating consumption of natural ”
Sustainable Consumption of Food: A Framework for Analyzing Scenarios about Changes in Diets (2005, background): “A recent study of Dutch food consumption focused on land requirements for different “food packages,”orstylized diets, including an“optimal diet,” based on official Dutch dietary guidelines, and several versions of an “affluent diet,” based on actual diets in several European countries and the United”