Public policies and vested interests preserve the animal farming status quo at the expense of animal product analogs

One Earth, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 6(9), P. 1213 - 1226

Published: Aug. 18, 2023

A transformation of the food system that heavily relies on animal-derived foods is required to reduce its impact climate, deforestation, and biodiversity. This challenge demands an understanding policies vested interests enabling or hindering progress toward sustainable production systems. We applied multilevel perspective framework evaluate incumbent sociotechnical regime—animal farming—and niche innovations producing animal product analogs. conducted a comparative analysis United States European Union assess possible trajectories transition. Our findings reveal that, although in recent years both governments have invested started modify regulations, they mostly preserved status quo animal-based consumption. Despite urgency increase sustainability, failed address environmental impacts technologies. Powerful exerted their political influence maintain unchanged obstruct competition created by technological innovations.

Language: Английский

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Does smallholder maize intensification reduce deforestation? Evidence from Zambia

Global Environmental Change, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 63, P. 102127 - 102127

Published: July 1, 2020

Language: Английский

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How Can Remote Sensing Help Monitor Tropical Moist Forest Degradation?—A Systematic Review

Remote Sensing, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 12(7), P. 1087 - 1087

Published: March 28, 2020

In the context of climate and biodiversity crisis facing our planet, tropical forests playing a key role in global carbon flux containing over half Earth’s species are important to preserve. They today threatened by deforestation but also forest degradation, which is more difficult study. Here, we performed systematic review studies on moist degradation using remote sensing fitting indicators resilience perturbations. Geographical repartition, spatial extent temporal evolution were analyzed. Indicators compositional, structural regeneration criteria noted as well indices metrics used. Tropical not extensively studied especially Congo basin southeast Asia. Forest structure (i.e., canopy gaps, fragmentation biomass) most widely easily measured with sensing, while composition characterize. Mixing LiDAR/Radar optical data shows good potential very high-resolution satellite data. The awaited GEDI BIOMASS satellites will fill actual gap large provide accurate information. LiDAR unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) form bridge between field While performance no longer be demonstrated, particular attention should brought UAV that great could used local communities stakeholders.

Language: Английский

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Fostering a climate-smart intensification for oil palm

Nature Sustainability, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 4(7), P. 595 - 601

Published: March 25, 2021

Language: Английский

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Where does your guacamole come from? Detecting deforestation associated with the export of avocados from Mexico to the United States

Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 278, P. 111482 - 111482

Published: Oct. 27, 2020

Language: Английский

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