Dairy Trade Helps to Alleviate Global Carbon Emission Pressure

Wu, Yanjie; Mao, Xianqiang; Lu, Jincheng; Wang, Mudan; Zhang, Qingyong; Song, Peng; Liu, Zhengyan; Gong, Wei

doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c00623

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“…In contrast, increasing the production and trade of eggs, vegetables, and root crops could help close the nutrient gap with lower GHG emissions in most countries [34]. Trade in dairy products not only aids in improving child stunting [35] but also reduces GHG emissions [36]. Therefore, the trade in livestock products could be directed toward dairy products and eggs by reducing tariffs on these items and increasing tariffs on red meat.…”

Section: Future Implicationsmentioning

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Does the Trade of Livestock Products Enhance Micro-Nutrient Availability While Minimizing Environmental Impact?

Liu,

Li,

Liu

et al. 2024

Agriculture

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Providing sufficient, high-quality food without compromising efforts in climate change and environmental pollution control is a long-term imperative for humanity. Livestock product trade may help bridge the gap in micro-nutrient supply; however, its potential environmental impacts remain underexplored. Using data from 200 countries and 77 different livestock commodities from 1961 to 2019, this study uncovers the impact of livestock trade on micro-nutrient productivity per livestock unit and per feed nitrogen input. Our results indicate that livestock trade has improved productivity for all seven studied micro-nutrients over the past 59 years, except for vitamin A. This improvement has led to a substantial reduction in the number of livestock units and feed nitrogen requirements needed to deliver the same amount of micro-nutrients, thereby reducing related greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen losses globally. Generally, livestock trade has become more optimal and functional in terms of livestock productivity and feed use efficiency, particularly in the most recent decade, although there were slight differences between various micro-nutrients. We recommend continuing and potentially increasing international livestock trade, given the higher efficiency gap between exporting and importing countries; however, this should be structured more appropriately.

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Section: Future Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the Trade of Livestock Products Enhance Micro-Nutrient Availability While Minimizing Environmental Impact?

Liu,

Li,

Liu

et al. 2024

Agriculture

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“…However, not all possible impacts of the dairy trade are negative. Wu et al report that the dairy trade alleviates the pressure on global carbon emissions [18][19][20].…”

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Evolution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Global Dairy Trade

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There are imbalances and uncertainties in the global supply and demand of dairy products, owing to the adverse influence of overall economic changes, dairy prices, agricultural politics, the COVID-19 pandemic, and severe climate. This paper aims to explore the evolving characteristics and influencing factors of the global dairy trade pattern and make recommendations for the sustainable development of the global dairy trade. This paper studies the evolutionary characteristics of the global dairy trade pattern from the perspective of the overall structure, individual characteristics, and core–periphery structure through complex network analysis (CNA), using the countries involved in dairy trade from 2000 to 2020. Furthermore, this study explores the influencing factors of the dairy trade network using a quadratic allocation procedure (QAP). The results indicate that the global dairy trade network has been expanding, with prominent scale-free features and small-world characteristics. Individual countries display obvious heterogeneity, whereas the core import regions of the dairy shift from Europe, East Asia, and America to North America, the Middle East, and East Asia. Contrary to this, there is no significant change in the core export regions. Consequently, the entire dairy trade network represents a clear core–periphery structure. Moreover, the income per capita gaps, geographic distance gaps, and common language always affect the trade value and dairy trade relations across the countries. Meanwhile, economic level gaps and regional trade agreements have become increasingly significant. Thus, the dairy trade may not follow the “border effect”. Lastly, this paper also extends recommendations for the sustainable development of the dairy trade.

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“…For example, Subak showed that the methane leakage associated with international trade of rice, meat and milk products can jeopardize the effectiveness of Framework Convention on Climate Change (Subak, 1995). More recent studies uncovered the role of international meat (Caro et al, 2014), dairy (Wu et al, 2022) as well as general commodity trade (Fernández-Amador et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2019;Yan et al, 2021) in redistributing regional methane emissions.…”

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confidence: 99%