Europe in the global food system: a scenario for 2050 based on FAO projections
This study rests on Agribiom, a simple world food-balance model in calories connecting land use and agricultural production to biomass consumption in various forms (food, feed, biofuel, etc.). This tool is used to revisit and discuss the 2012 revision of the “World Agriculture Towards 2030/50” of th...
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Language: | French |
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HAL CCSD
2014
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Online Access: | https://hal.science/cirad-01112998 https://hal.science/cirad-01112998/document https://hal.science/cirad-01112998/file/Dorin,%202014%20-%20L%E2%80%99Europe%20dans%20le%20syst%C3%A8me%20alimentaire%20mondial%20%281961-2050%29.pdf |
Summary: | This study rests on Agribiom, a simple world food-balance model in calories connecting land use and agricultural production to biomass consumption in various forms (food, feed, biofuel, etc.). This tool is used to revisit and discuss the 2012 revision of the “World Agriculture Towards 2030/50” of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Conversion and aggregation into calories of country-wise and product-wise detailed FAO data in tonnes (demand, production and trade) for 2005-07 and 2050 helps to synthesize the FAO projections and their assumptions for nine world regions, including “Europe” (EU27 plus Switzerland, Norway and Island), the focus of this study. Our regional FAO-based scenarios in calories are then compared and discussed with Agribiom historical estimates from 1961 to 2007 in various fields (cultivated area, yield, net trade, population and food diet, other uses of food biomass). In the last section, we question three critical points that challenge the projection of Europe in the global food system: the population projections, the conversion of plant food biomass into animal food products, the demand for biofuel. L’étude PluriAgriBiom (PAB), commanditée et financée par l’association française Pluriagri, vise à mieux cerner la place passée et future de l’Europe dans le système alimentaire mondial en mobilisant l’outil quantitatif rétro-prospectif Agribiom. Un premier volet, réalisé en 2011-12, était centré sur une vaste analyse rétrospective des productions, échanges et usages mondiaux de biomasses alimentaires (1961-2007). Ce deuxième volet, réalisé en 2013-14, est entièrement consacré à la consolidation et analyse d’un scénario mondial de référence PluriAgriBiom pour 2050 (PAB50) adossé aux projections 2012 de la FAO pour cet horizon. La première partie de ce rapport synthétise, pour neuf régions du monde dont une Europe à 30 pays (EU30 = EU27 + Suisse, Norvège et Islande), plusieurs centaines de milliers de données transmises par la FAO pour sa base historique 2006 ... |
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