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Soybean trade : balancing environmental and socio-economic impacts of an intercontinental market
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Boerema, A, Peeters, A, Swolfs, S, Vandevenne, F, Jacobs, S, Staes, J & Meire, P 2016, ' Soybean trade : Balancing environmental and socio-economic impacts of an intercontinental market ' PLoS ONE, vol. 11, no. 5 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155222, PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 5, p e0155222 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The trade in soybean, an important animal feed product, exemplifies the environmental and socio-economic impact of global markets and global agricultural policy. This paper analyses the impact of increasing production of soybean in the exporting countries (deforestation and grassland conversion) as well as in importing regions (decrease in permanent grassland by substitution of grass as feed). Ecosystem services monetary values were used to calculate the environmental and socio-economic impact of observed land use changes. This is balanced against the economic value of the global soybean trade. The results prove that consumption choices in one region have real effects on the supply of ecosystem services at a large spatial scale. Conclusively, solutions to make this global market more sustainable are discussed.
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Swine
lcsh:Medicine
Social Sciences
Plant Science
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Agricultural economics
Ecosystem services
Animal Products
Land Use
Medicine and Health Sciences
Economics
lcsh:Science
Mammals
Multidisciplinary
Ecology
Geography
Agriculture
Ruminants
Terrestrial Environments
Grassland
Europe
Product (business)
Policy
Grasslands
Vertebrates
Engineering sciences. Technology
Brazil
Research Article
Conservation of Natural Resources
Meat
Livestock
Forest Ecology
Argentina
Crops
Environment
Human Geography
Ecosystems
Bovines
Deforestation
Animals
Humans
Agricultural policy
Production (economics)
Society
Plant Communities
Ecosystem
Nutrition
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Consumption (economics)
Land use
business.industry
Plant Ecology
lcsh:R
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
Diet
Socioeconomic Factors
Food
Amniotes
Earth Sciences
lcsh:Q
Cattle
Soybeans
Soybean
business
Crop Science
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9e83761fd658eb6f101c74a582859412