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Soybean Trade: Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of an Intercontinental Market
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27244079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155222 |
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author | Boerema, Annelies Peeters, Alain Swolfs, Sanne Vandevenne, Floor Jacobs, Sander Staes, Jan Meire, Patrick |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-48870312016-06-10 Soybean Trade: Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of an Intercontinental Market Boerema, Annelies Peeters, Alain Swolfs, Sanne Vandevenne, Floor Jacobs, Sander Staes, Jan Meire, Patrick PLoS One Research Article 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. Public Library of Science 2016-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4887031/ /pubmed/27244079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155222 Text en © 2016 Boerema et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Boerema, Annelies Peeters, Alain Swolfs, Sanne Vandevenne, Floor Jacobs, Sander Staes, Jan Meire, Patrick Soybean Trade: Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of an Intercontinental Market |
title | Soybean Trade: Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of an Intercontinental Market |
title_full | Soybean Trade: Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of an Intercontinental Market |
title_fullStr | Soybean Trade: Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of an Intercontinental Market |
title_full_unstemmed | Soybean Trade: Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of an Intercontinental Market |
title_short | Soybean Trade: Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of an Intercontinental Market |
title_sort | soybean trade: balancing environmental and socio-economic impacts of an intercontinental market |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27244079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155222 |
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