TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kriewald, Steffen
A1  - Pradhan, Prajal
A1  - Costa, Luís Fílípe Carvalho da
A1  - Ros, Anselmo Garcia Cantu
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - Hungry cities: how local food self-sufficiency relates to climate change, diets, and urbanisation
JF  - Environmental research letters
N2  - Using a newly developed model approach and combining it with remote sensing, population, and climate data, first insights are provided into how local diets, urbanisation, and climate change relates to local urban food self-sufficiency. In plain terms, by utilizing the global peri-urban (PU) food production potential approximately lbn urban residents (30% of global urban population) can be locally nourished, whereby further urbanisation is by far the largest pressure factor on PU agriculture, followed by a change of diets, and climate change. A simple global food transport model which optimizes transport and neglects differences in local emission intensities indicates that CO2 emissions related to food transport can be reduced by a factor of 10.
KW  - peri-urban agriculture
KW  - urbanization
KW  - dietary patterns
KW  - agricultural productivity
KW  - food systems
KW  - local food
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2d56
SN  - 1748-9326
VL  - 14
IS  - 9
PB  - IOP Publ. Ltd.
CY  - Bristol
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pradhan, Prajal
A1  - Lüdeke, Matthias K. B.
A1  - Rösser, Dominik E.
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - Embodied crop calories in animal products
JF  - Environmental research letters
N2  - Increases in animal products consumption and the associated environmental consequences have been a matter of scientific debate for decades. Consequences of such increases include rises in greenhouse gas emissions, growth of consumptive water use, and perturbation of global nutrients cycles. These consequences vary spatially depending on livestock types, their densities and their production system. In this letter, we investigate the spatial distribution of embodied crop calories in animal products. On a global scale, about 40% of the global crop calories are used as livestock feed (we refer to this ratio as crop balance for livestock) and about 4 kcal of crop products are used to generate 1 kcal of animal products (embodied crop calories of around 4). However, these values vary greatly around the world. In some regions, more than 100% of the crops produced is required to feed livestock requiring national or international trade to meet the deficit in livestock feed. Embodied crop calories vary between less than 1 for 20% of the livestock raising areas worldwide and greater than 10 for another 20% of the regions. Low values of embodied crop calories are related to production systems for ruminants based on fodder and forage, while large values are usually associated with production systems for non-ruminants fed on crop products. Additionally, we project the future feed demand considering three scenarios: (a) population growth, (b) population growth and changes in human dietary patterns and (c) changes in population, dietary patterns and feed conversion efficiency. When considering dietary changes, we project the global feed demand to be almost doubled (1.8-2.3 times) by 2050 compared to 2000, which would force us to produce almost equal or even more crops to raise our livestock than to directly nourish ourselves in the future. Feed demand is expected to increase over proportionally in Africa, South-Eastern Asia and Southern Asia, putting additional stress on these regions.
KW  - crop products
KW  - animal calories
KW  - dietary patterns
KW  - livestock feed
KW  - gridded data
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044044
SN  - 1748-9326
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
PB  - IOP Publ. Ltd.
CY  - Bristol
ER  -