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Natural ecosystems are increasingly threatened by global agricultural supply chains, and a narrow policy focus on forests has fueled agricultural expansion into ecologically significant but severely overlooked non-forest ecosystems, including grasslands and open wetlands. While a few emerging policies attempt to protect non-forest ecosystems, a globally consistent assessment of their conversion extent and drivers, especially related to livestock production and commodity-specific supply chain demand, remains lacking. Here, we conducted a spatially explicit analysis to identify pasture and cropland expansion into non-forest ecosystems between 2005 and 2020, as well as conversion-linked primary agricultural commodities and their underlying demand drivers (end uses and final market destinations). We found that the conversion rate of natural non-forest ecosystems was nearly four times that of lands with tree cover exceeding 5 m (a common forest height threshold), with Brazil contributing 13% of the global total and Russia, India, China, and the United States each contributing about 6%. While drivers varied greatly across regions, globally 50% of the conversion was linked to pasture, and 27, 17, and 6% to cropland for food, feed, and other uses (mainly bioenergy), respectively. Among conversion-linked commodities, most livestock-associated products served domestic demand, while 32% of feed crops and 20% of all crops were exported, with export shares reaching 70 to 80% in Brazil and Argentina. These findings reveal important areas for non-forest ecosystem conservation and highlight the need for integrated policies to prevent leakage across different ecosystems and different sustainable development goals while also aligning local actions with global supply chain governance.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25022026/grasslands-wetlands-gobbled-up-by-agriculture-livestock/

Direct evidence for processing Isatis tinctoria L., a non-nutritional plant, 32–34,000 years ago

9mon 17d ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from journals.plos.org
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Navigating family dynamics in the transition to a plant-forward diet: the role of social support

11mon 18d ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.tandfonline.com
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Island-wide removal of honeybees reveals exploitative trophic competition with strongly declining wild bee populations

1y 9d ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.sciencedirect.com
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Meta: The Nutrition War You Don't Even Know You're In

1y 19d ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.youtube.com
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How the loss of experienced individual elephants stops knowledge transfer between generations

1y 1mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from phys.org
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Dairy and Plant-Based Milks: Implications for Nutrition and Planetary Health

1y 1mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products

1y 2mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.sciencedirect.com
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New Study: Vegans Have Higher Blood Levels of This Key Amino Acid

1y 2mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/Sunshine in science@lemmy.vg from youtu.be
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Are Seed Oils Dangerous? Dr. Bill Harris on Omega-6 Fats Explained | The Proof Podcast EP #357

1y 2mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.youtube.com
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New Study: Processed Plant Foods Don't Cause Weight Gain?

1y 2mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.youtube.com
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Wild fish use visual cues to recognize individual divers

1y 3mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from royalsocietypublishing.org
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A theory for formation of large empires* | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core

1y 3mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.cambridge.org
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Long-term declines in dietary nutritional quality for North American cattle (2017)

1y 4mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from iopscience.iop.org
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Signal traditions and cultural loss in chimpanzees

1y 4mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.cell.com
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What actually causes high cholesterol?

1y 4mon ago by lemmy.ca/u/Sunshine in science@lemmy.vg from www.youtube.com
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Health in the age of disinformation

1y 4mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.thelancet.com
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Vegan Sexuality: Challenging Heteronormative Masculinity through Meat-free Sex

1y 5mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/Aqua in science@lemmy.vg from www.researchgate.net
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Influencers vs Epidemiologists: Money & Fame vs Science

1y 5mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.youtube.com
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Scientists find that cavemen ate a mostly plant-based diet in groundbreaking new study

1y 5mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.joe.co.uk
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No, Plants Aren’t Bad for You (and Other ‘Meatfluencer’ Claims, Fact-Checked)

1y 5mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from sentientmedia.org
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The amount of energy it takes to make one hamburger is hard to believe

1y 5mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.earth.com
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Seed Oils cause Cancer?!? | Media headlines whip up panic

1y 5mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.youtube.com
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Harvard Study Links More Plant Proteins and Less Meat to Lower Heart Disease Risk

1y 6mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from vegconomist.com
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​​Zoonotic diseases on the rise in the EU: listeriosis cases hit highest levels since 2007​

1y 6mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.efsa.europa.eu
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The distribution of environmental pressures from global dietary shift

1y 6mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from iopscience.iop.org
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New Research Confirms The Mediterranean Diet Can Help Multiple Conditions, From Erectile Dysfunction to PTSD

1y 6mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from vegnews.com
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This soil is slowly burning, releasing CO2. The solution? Let water reclaim it

1y 6mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.npr.org
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No, gain of function research did not cause COVID-19

1y 7mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from bigthink.com
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Breakthrough Research Explains Why Red Meat Raises Cancer Risk

1y 7mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from vegnews.com
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The $212 Billion Dollar Food ingredient poisoning your Brain? RE: What I've Learned

1y 7mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.youtube.com
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Characterizing the Areal Extent of PFAS Contamination in Fish Species Downgradient of AFFF Source Zones

1y 7mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from pubs.acs.org
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The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming

1y 8mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from journals.plos.org
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Animal-welfare-labelled meat is not a stepping stone to animal-free diets: empirical evidence from a survey

1y 8mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.tandfonline.com
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2 Diabetes Reversal Programs: 1 Winner.

1y 9mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.youtube.com
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Reducing climate change impacts from the global food system through diet shifts

1y 9mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.nature.com
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A Comprehensive Rebuttal to Seed Oil Sophistry

1y 10mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.the-nutrivore.com
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Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

1y 10mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.cell.com
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Global shark fishing mortality still rising despite widespread regulatory change

1y 10mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.science.org
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Dispersal limitation induces long-term biomass collapse in overhunted Amazonian forests

1y 10mon ago by lemmy.vg/u/veganpizza69 in science@lemmy.vg from www.pnas.org
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