Abstract

The seminar will cover several studies done at the global scale with high spatial resolution (about 9 by 9km grid cells) to evaluate crop-specific environmental pressures of agricultural production. First, we focus on climate impacts and attribute carbon emissions due to land use transitions (between native or secondary vegetation, pasture, and cropland) to specific crops from 2000 to 2020. Second, we present an MIRO-based study analyzing where international food trade has a positive or negative effect on overall GHG emissions from agriculture. Finally, we build sustainability indicators relating water, fertiliser, land use and GHG emissions from cropland to locally-defined limits based on water stress, eutrophication, climate change and biodiversity loss.

co-authors: Marcellin Guilbert, Belen Benitez, Jasmine Gamblin, Charlotte Janssens

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