Foreign demand for agricultural commodities drives virtual carbon exports from Cambodia

Johansson, Emma; Olin, Stefan; Seaquist, Jonathan

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab8157

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“…On the contrary, there was a substantial increment in Thailand, especially in the Northern part, for example, the Khorat Plateau. The increase was likely due to abundant household-based scattered rubber plantation production in various newly emerging planting regions (Johansson et al, 2020).…”

Section: Quantity Changes In Forest Cropland and Plantationmentioning

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Agricultural expansion and forest retreat in Mainland Southeast Asia since the late 1980s

Xiao,

Li,

Feng

2023

Land Degrad Dev

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Agrarian expansion and intensification in the tropical agricultural‐forest frontiers (TAFF) are continuously encroaching on forests, yet the magnitudes and processes of agricultural‐forest advances and retreats remain lacking investigation systematically and quantitatively. With over three‐decade (1987–2018) of land‐cover products, here, we revealed the spatiotemporal dynamic processes of agricultural advance and forest retreat and then quantified forest loss (FL) due to cropland and plantation expansion (PE) in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA). First, the agricultural expansion and FL peaked in the late 1990s to early 2000s and decelerated afterward in MSEA. Meanwhile, the continuous decline in deforestation rates was accompanied by a decline in the patches of forest fragments, while cropland and plantations first decreased and then increased. Second, 85% of cropland expansion (CE) occurred in forest frontiers of Myanmar (37%) and Thailand (32%) in particular, compared with 72% of PE in plantation‐forest frontiers, for example, 24% in Thailand and 22% in Cambodia. Third, 51% and 37% of the forests that declined were converted into cropland and plantations, respectively, with obvious national variations. In the least developed countries, such as Myanmar and Cambodia, CE dominated (65%), while the proportion of PE in Thailand and Vietnam was up to 56%. Finally, over 10% of the advances and retreats (re‐)occurred in various protected areas, with the expansion ratio of cropland and plantations nearly 1:2, particularly the Cambodia‐Thailand border. We thus appeal for more effective efforts from governments, the scientific community, and international initiatives (e.g., the UN‐REDD and Sustainable Development Goals) to further study and solve the issues of forest retreat and agricultural advance across the entire TAFF. Our new findings and insights about agricultural‐forest advances and retreats in their frontiers can enrich existing pan‐regional research of forest conversion or FL and agricultural expansion and provide an encouraging basis for action to reduce environmental degradation in tropical forests, including protected areas.

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Section: Quantity Changes In Forest Cropland and Plantationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural expansion and forest retreat in Mainland Southeast Asia since the late 1980s

Xiao,

Li,

Feng

2023

Land Degrad Dev

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“…Moreover, there is the issue of ecological degradation embedded in trade, beyond that of forests. These resources, including water, land, and carbon are lost in production processes and 'virtually exported' (Johansson et al, 2020;Henders et al, 2015;Johansson et al, 2016).…”

Section: 'Sustainable' Developmentmentioning

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Is the Grass Greener in a Post-Pandemic World? (Re)Connecting Humanity with Nature for a Just Recovery

Blitzer¹

2021

EXS

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This article assesses the potential for reconnecting human and non- human nature in global post-COVID-19 recovery plans. The article utilises a critical perspective on the neoliberalisation of nature as a framing, as well as the case of sustainability and deforestation in forest risk commodity supply chains, to assess whether sustainable development initiatives and neoliberal environmental governance adequately protect the interests of vulnerable human and non- human nature. It finds that existing approaches to sustainable development in international governance prioritise liberalised global markets and the neoliberalisation of nature through commodification, privatisation and marketisation, thus furthering an unjust human-nature dichotomy by placing humans separate from nature and removing the intrinsic value of non-human materiality. It identifies a synergy between the global campaign to ‘build back better’ after COVID-19, environmental regulation and principles of Wild Law. The article concludes by recommending that a just post- pandemic economic recovery must realign the human experience as a part of the wider whole of the non-human natural world.

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Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience

Scaini,

Mulligan,

Berg

et al. 2024

Ambio

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Drawing on collective experience from ten collaborative research projects focused on the Global South, we identify three major challenges that impede the translation of research on sustainability and resilience into better-informed choices by individuals and policy-makers that in turn can support transformation to a sustainable future. The three challenges comprise: (i) converting knowledge produced during research projects into successful knowledge application; (ii) scaling up knowledge in time when research projects are short-term and potential impacts are long-term; and (iii) scaling up knowledge across space, from local research sites to larger-scale or even global impact. Some potential pathways for funding agencies to overcome these challenges include providing targeted prolonged funding for dissemination and outreach, and facilitating collaboration and coordination across different sites, research teams, and partner organizations. By systematically documenting these challenges, we hope to pave the way for further innovations in the research cycle.

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Foreign demand for agricultural commodities drives virtual carbon exports from Cambodia

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Agricultural expansion and forest retreat in Mainland Southeast Asia since the late 1980s

Agricultural expansion and forest retreat in Mainland Southeast Asia since the late 1980s

Is the Grass Greener in a Post-Pandemic World? (Re)Connecting Humanity with Nature for a Just Recovery

Pathways from research to sustainable development: Insights from ten research projects in sustainability and resilience

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