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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102124
	Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis
	Duro J.A.; Lauk C.; Kastner T.; Erb K.-H.; Haberl H.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	9593780
卷号	64
英文摘要	The world population is expected to rise to 9.7 billion by 2050 and to ~11 billion by 2100, and securing its healthy nutrition is a key concern. As global fertile land is limited, the question arises whether growth in food consumption associated with increased affluence surmounts increases in land-use efficiency (measured as food supply per cropland area) associated with technological progress. Furthermore, substantial inequalities prevail in the global food system: While overly rich diets represent a serious health issue for many of the world's most affluent inhabitants and constitute a critical climate-change driver, undernourishment and hunger still threaten a considerable fraction of the world population, mostly in low-income countries. We here analyze trajectories in cropland demand and their main basic drivers food consumption (measured by a food index reflecting the share of animal products in diets) and land-use efficiency, for 123 countries (clustered in four income groups, covering 94% of the world population). We cover the period 1990–2013 and assess if these trajectories are associated with changes in inequality between countries. We find that while all groups of countries converged towards the high level of the per-capita food consumption of high-income countries, differences between income groups remained pronounced. Overall, cropland demand per capita declined over the entire period in all regions except low income countries, resulting in a tendency towards global convergence. However, the trend slowed in the last years. In contrast, land-use efficiency increased in all income groups with a similar trend, hence international inequalites in land-use efficiency remained almost unaltered. Because population and food requirements per capita are expected to grow in all income groups except the richest ones, failure to improve land efficiency sufficiently could lead to a less unequal but at the same time less ecologically sustainable world. Avoiding such outcomes may be possible by reducing the consumption of animal products in the richer countries and raising land-use efficiency in the poorer countries. © 2020 The Authors
关键词	Cropland demand Food supply Inequality Land-use efficiency Land-use intensity
英文关键词	agricultural land; consumption behavior; decomposition analysis; demand analysis; equity; food consumption; global perspective; hunger; land use planning; low income population; malnutrition; trend analysis; Animalia
语种	英语
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205456
作者单位	Economics Department and ECO-SOS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda Universotat 2, Reus, Spain; Institute of Social Ecology, Department of Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo, University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna, Schottenfeldgasse 29, Vienna, 1070, Austria; Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, Frankfurt am Main, 60325, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Duro J.A.,Lauk C.,Kastner T.,et al. Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis[J],2020,64.
APA	Duro J.A.,Lauk C.,Kastner T.,Erb K.-H.,&Haberl H..(2020).Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis.Global Environmental Change,64.
MLA	Duro J.A.,et al."Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis".Global Environmental Change 64(2020).