Interprovincial food trade aggravates China’s land scarcity

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cg.contributor.affiliationTsinghua University
cg.contributor.affiliationZhejiang University
cg.contributor.affiliationVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
cg.contributor.affiliationLeiden University
cg.contributor.affiliationChongqing University
cg.contributor.affiliationNeijiang Normal University
cg.contributor.affiliationZhejiang Ecological Civilization Academy
cg.contributor.donorNational Natural Science Foundation of China
cg.contributor.donorNational Key Research and Development Program, China
cg.contributor.donorMinistry of Education Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
cg.contributor.donorNational Social Science Fund, China
cg.contributor.donorZhejiang Province
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Fund
cg.contributor.initiativeLow-Emission Food Systems
cg.coverage.countryChina
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2CN
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionEastern Asia
cg.howPublishedFormally Published
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02534-9
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot Ranked
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn2662-9992
cg.issue1
cg.journalHumanities and Social Sciences Communications
cg.number76
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.volume11
dc.contributor.authorHe, Jianjian
dc.contributor.authorWang, Siqi
dc.contributor.authorHeijungs, Reinout
dc.contributor.authorYang, Yi
dc.contributor.authorShu, Shumiao
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Weiwen
dc.contributor.authorXu, Anqi
dc.contributor.authorFang, Kai
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-01T17:44:46Zen
dc.date.available2024-02-01T17:44:46Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138800
dc.titleInterprovincial food trade aggravates China’s land scarcityen
dcterms.abstractLand is an increasingly scarce resource that plays a critical role in achieving many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Land scarcity, namely the imbalance state between cropland availability and demand, can be mitigated by the trade of agricultural products, but how effective it is remains unclear. Here, by integrating grid-level data on cropland into multi-regional input–output analysis, this paper accounts for the scarce land footprint and virtual scarce land flows within China at a 1 km × 1 km resolution. Results show that over 70% of China’s land footprint and scarce land footprint can be attributed to less than 20% of the land, and nearly 38% of the land footprint and scarce land footprint hotspot clusters are found to cross provinces. Generally, while virtual land trade mitigates the land scarcity of land-importing provinces by 50.8%, it disproportionately aggravates the land scarcity of land-exporting provinces by 119.8%. These findings challenge the dominant thinking about food trading and call for new policies to improve land resources management and promote collaborative governance across administrative boundaries. Our study also highlights the critical importance of considering land scarcity, shedding lights on how it may be integrated into environmental footprints to better assist the SDG framework.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2024-01-08
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHe, Jianjian; Wang, Siqi; Heijungs, Reinout; Yang, Yi; Shu, Shumiao; Zhang, Weiwen; Xu, Anqi; and Fang, Kai. 2024. Interprovincial food trade aggravates China’s land scarcity. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11: 76. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02534-9en
dcterms.issued2024-01-08
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherSpringer
dcterms.subjecttradeen
dcterms.subjectland accessen
dcterms.subjectagricultural tradeen
dcterms.subjectsustainable development goalsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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