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| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1002/pan3.10607 |
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| Title (Primary) | The role of nature's contributions to people in sustaining international trade of agricultural products |
| Author | Marques, A.; Bonn, A.
; Castro, A.J.; Chaudhary, A.; Felipe-Lucia, M.; Kastner, T.; Koellner, T.; Lancker, K.; Lopez Hoffman, L.; Meyer, C.; Pfister, S.; Rabeschini, G.; Willemen, L.; Schulp, C.J.E. |
| Source Titel | People and Nature |
| Year | 2024 |
| Department | iDiv; BioP |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Page From | 410 |
| Page To | 421 |
| Language | englisch |
| Topic | T5 Future Landscapes |
| Keywords | Nature’s contributions to people; ecosystem services; telecoupling; supply chains; dependencies; international agricultural trade |
| Abstract | 1. Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) are essential for the production and trade of agricultural, forestry, and fishery commodities. Often, there is a spatial disconnect between consumers and the natural systems where the commodities are produced. Traded agricultural products are therefore dependent on nature and NCP in their region of origin. 2. The dependencies of agricultural products on NCP are, however, insufficiently recognized by consumers and are rarely considered in global environmental governance and trade policies along value chains. 3. Here, we synthesize studies highlighting dependencies of agricultural products on NCP in their origin locations to identify opportunities and challenges in quantifying their contribution in sustaining trade flows. 4. We suggest three methodological steps for quantifying NCP dependencies in international agricultural trade: spatial mapping of NCP supply and demand, linking NCP to agricultural trade flows, and tracing trade flows. Each methodological step requires further development and harmonisation to enable a complete accounting of how international agricultural trade depends on NCP. 5. Given the lack of knowledge and data on how NCP support agricultural trade, social and environmental trade-offs of natural resource management are currently hard to quantify. Quantifying the role of NCP dependencies of traded agricultural products can support their sustainable management, contribute to supply chain accountability, and serve as input to sustainable natural resource governance and foster responsibility and equity in supply chains. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=28582 |
| Marques, A., Bonn, A., Castro, A.J., Chaudhary, A., Felipe-Lucia, M., Kastner, T., Koellner, T., Lancker, K., Lopez Hoffman, L., Meyer, C., Pfister, S., Rabeschini, G., Willemen, L., Schulp, C.J.E. (2024): The role of nature's contributions to people in sustaining international trade of agricultural products People Nat. 6 (2), 410 - 421 10.1002/pan3.10607 |
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