Globalizing land use transitions: the soybean acceleration

TY - JOUR

T1 - Globalizing land use transitions: the soybean acceleration

AU - Reenberg, Anette

AU - Fenger, Nina Astrid

PY - 2011/6

Y1 - 2011/6

N2 - This note presents the recent global development trends in soybean cultivation as derived from the FAO statistics. It focuses on the change over the course of the last thirty years, when significant new allocations of the global production have occurred, which have turned South America into a leading player on the global scale. It takes point of departure in a land change science approach and employs the notions of underlying and proximate drivers and teleconnections to characterize the process of land use change in relation to the accelerating use of land for soybean cultivation.

AB - This note presents the recent global development trends in soybean cultivation as derived from the FAO statistics. It focuses on the change over the course of the last thirty years, when significant new allocations of the global production have occurred, which have turned South America into a leading player on the global scale. It takes point of departure in a land change science approach and employs the notions of underlying and proximate drivers and teleconnections to characterize the process of land use change in relation to the accelerating use of land for soybean cultivation.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0016-7223

VL - 111

SP - 85

EP - 92

JO - Geografisk Tidsskrift

JF - Geografisk Tidsskrift

IS - 1

ER -