AGRI-FOOD CONSUMPTION
Assessing exceedance of global environmental limits by linking national agri-food consumption and production-based footprints
Researchers
Abdullah Shaikh Brett Bryan Michalis Hadjikakou
Summary
National agri-food consumption and associated cropland, GHG and freshwater footprints need to be assessed against the respective planetary boundaries to achieve responsible consumption and production under UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12. The project of my PhD is to downscale the Land-System Change, climate change and freshwater use planetary boundary and allocate national-scale environmental limits for agri-food consumption and production for all countries. We aim to quantify national consumption- and production-based footprints (including imports/exports) using an environmentally extended multi-regional input-output model and calculated the exceedance of national boundary limits. We also aim to link the consumption and production-based perspectives to provide a complete picture of global impacts of the food system required to support policy and decision-making for responsible consumption and production under SDG 12 and to minimise exceedance of the planetary boundaries. This research will document the global reach and complexity of agri-food consumption impacts for cropland, GHG emissions and freshwater use.