The Role of Latin America’s Land and Water Resources for Global Food Security: Environmental Trade-Offs of Future Food Production Pathways.

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cg.contributor.affiliationUniversidad Politécnica de Madriden
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationHarvard Universityen
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystemsen
cg.coverage.regionLatin Americaen
cg.creator.identifierClaudia Ringler: 0000-0002-8266-0488en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116733en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Divisionen
cg.identifier.publicationRankAen
cg.identifier.wlethemeManaging Resource Variability and Competing Useen
cg.identifier.wlethemeEcosystems Service and Resilienceen
cg.issn1932-6203en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalPLOS ONEen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.wleFOOD SECURITYen
cg.subject.wleLAND AND WATER PRODUCTIVITYen
cg.volume10en
dc.contributor.authorFlachsbarth, I.en
dc.contributor.authorWillaarts, B.en
dc.contributor.authorXie, Huaen
dc.contributor.authorPitois, G.en
dc.contributor.authorMueller, N.D.en
dc.contributor.authorRingler, Claudiaen
dc.contributor.authorGarrido, A.en
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-19T04:22:33Zen
dc.date.available2015-05-19T04:22:33Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/66138
dc.titleThe Role of Latin America’s Land and Water Resources for Global Food Security: Environmental Trade-Offs of Future Food Production Pathways.en
dcterms.abstractOne of humanity’s major challenges of the 21st century will be meeting future food demands on an increasingly resource constrained-planet. Global food production will have to rise by 70 percent between 2000 and 2050 to meet effective demand which poses major challenges to food production systems. Doing so without compromising environmental integrity is an even greater challenge. This study looks at the interdependencies between land and water resources, agricultural production and environmental outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), an area of growing importance in international agricultural markets. Special emphasis is given to the role of LAC’s agriculture for (a) global food security and (b) environmental sustainability. We use the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT)—a global dynamic partial equilibrium model of the agricultural sector—to run different future production scenarios, and agricultural trade regimes out to 2050, and assess changes in related environmental indicators. Results indicate that further trade liberalization is crucial for improving food security globally, but that it would also lead to more environmental pressures in some regions across Latin America. Contrasting land expansion versus more intensified agriculture shows that productivity improvements are generally superior to agricultural land expansion, from an economic and environmental point of view. Finally, our analysis shows that there are trade-offs between environmental and food security goals for all agricultural development paths.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2015-01-24en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationFlachsbarth, I., Willaarts, B., Xie, H., Pitois, G., Mueller, N. D., Ringler, C., & Garrido, A. (2015). The Role of Latin America’s Land and Water Resources for Global Food Security: Environmental Trade-Offs of Future Food Production Pathways. PLOS ONE, 10(1), e0116733. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116733en
dcterms.issued2015en
dcterms.languageenen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en
dcterms.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/154027en
dcterms.replaceshttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/75869en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/4792en
dcterms.subjectland managementen
dcterms.subjectbiodiversityen
dcterms.subjectfood productionen
dcterms.subjecttrade liberalizationen
dcterms.subjectwater managementen
dcterms.subjectglobal food securityen
dcterms.subjectirrigationen
dcterms.subjectagricultural developmenten
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen

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