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Séminaire

Measuring Food Sustainability: Environmental sustainability indicators for global food production

Carole Dalin

Séminaire de Carole Dalin, Associate Professor à Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London

       

Date de début 21/03/2022 11:00
Date de fin 21/03/2022
Lieu ENS - 24 rue Lhomond - 75005 Paris - Salle Froidevaux - E314

Description

Agriculture feeds us and provides many other benefits, but its use of land, water and fertiliser as well as its emissions of greenhouse gases continue to cause significant environmental degradation. Agriculture is the first threat to biodiversity, the largest water-consuming sector, and an important contributor to pollution and climate change. While food demand is projected to increase, it is urgent to mitigate the negative environmental outcomes of food production. Here we provide the first consistent, high-resolution (5 arc-minute, or 9 km at the equator) global estimation of resources used for, and greenhouse gases emitted by, food production; covering 85% of human calorie intake. Importantly, our results provide comparable estimates of land, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium (fertilisers), soil-, surface- and ground-water use, and greenhouse gas emissions for a range of crops and animal products, considering animal feed and its geographical origin. We identify areas and foods with particularly high resource- or greenhouse gas emission-intensity, quantify the role of international feed trade in these intensities, and reveal synergies or trade-offs between different environmental stressors of food production worldwide.

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Lieu : ENS – 24 rue Lhomond – 75005 Paris – Salle Froidevaux – E314

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