H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2024

GIFTS · Global Interlinkages in Food Trade Systems

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-09-01 → 2024-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 160 932 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Глобалната търговия с храни и нейният екологичен отпечатък се анализират чрез проследяване на 640 продукта от производството до консумацията. Това помага за определяне на източниците на вредни емисии и разработване на по-устойчиви стратегии за доставка на храните.

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Резултати накратко

Global Interlinkages in Food Trade Systems

In recent decades, global trade in food and agricultural products has surged, increasing food availability but making countries more dependent on imports and reducing their self-sufficiency. This trade also spreads environmental impacts through supply chains, shifting agricultural production pressures from consuming to producing countries. The complex global food supply chains make it difficult to measure the environmental footprints of our food choices. To address this, the GIFTS project developed a Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) database to analyse global food trade and its environmental impacts, with a focus on land use and climate change. Using FAOSTAT data, this MRIO database tracks agri-food products from production to consumption, accounting for factors like calorie and protein content, harvested areas, and greenhouse gas emissions. The findings show a global increase in imported feedstock, leading to higher cropland and carbon footprints of food consumption over time. GIFTS MRIO framework is a powerful tool for refining environmental footprint assessments, offering detailed insights into the origin, processing, and trade of 640 products across 181 countries. This transparency helps supply chain actors identify environmental hotspots and develop more sustainable sourcing strategies. It also enables consumer countries to better understand the environmental footprint of their dietary patterns and establish policies to promote more sustainable food consumption from farm to fork. Overall, the MRIO database provides valuable data to inform policies and promote international cooperation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing sustainability in global food supply chains.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Food demand is increasingly satisfied with imported products from distant locations. This makes countries and consumers more vulnerable to supply chain disruptions and price spikes, challenging food security. Trade in food is also associated with the displacement of resource-intensive activities from industrialised to developing countries, influencing the distribution of land uses and related impacts on a global scale. The goal of the project GIFTS is to develop an integrated framework for the assessment of the long-term sustainability of food consumption, capturing the global interconnections between agricultural expansion, crop management, climate change and food security. The methodology departs from a physical Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) model developed by the host institution, with an unprecedented level of detail in agro-food products. I propose to improve this model by developing environmental extensions with spatially-explicit carbon stocks across land uses and greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production. Co-product flows between crop, livestock and energy sectors will also be implemented to represent reuse and recovery. The extended MRIO table will be used to assess the mitigation potential of climate change adaptation strategies along global supply chains, considering increased resource efficiency and land use change. The project involves training on the application of MRIO analysis for environmental evaluation as well as in spatial analysis at the host institution. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is involved in the secondment, providing training on the estimation of livestock emissions and fostering inter-sectoral research exchange between academia and decision-makers. Overall, GIFTS can greatly promote my interdisciplinary research career for providing science-based evidence to assist policy-making towards a more resilient, sustainable and circular society in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

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