The role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets
The food and land use sector is a major contributor to India's total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On one hand, India is committed to sustainability targets in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sectors, on the other, there is little clarity whether these objectives can align wit...
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| author | Jha, Chandan Kumar Singh, Vartika Stevanović, Miodrag Dietrich, Jan Philipp Mosnier, Aline |
| author_browse | Dietrich, Jan Philipp Jha, Chandan Kumar Mosnier, Aline Singh, Vartika Stevanović, Miodrag |
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| description | The food and land use sector is a major contributor to India's total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On one hand, India is committed to sustainability targets in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sectors, on the other, there is little clarity whether these objectives can align with national developmental priorities of food security and environmental protection. This study fills the gap by reviewing multiple corridors to sustain the AFOLU systems through an integrated assessment framework using partial equilibrium modeling. We create three pathways that combine the shared socio-economic pathways with alternative assumptions on diets and mitigation strategies. We analyze our results of the pathways on key indicators of land-use change, GHG emissions, food security, water withdrawals in agriculture, agricultural trade and production diversity. Our findings indicate that dietary shift, improved efficiency in livestock production systems, lower fertilizer use, and higher yield through sustainable intensification can reduce GHG emissions from the AFOLU sectors up to 80% by 2050. Dietary shifts could help meet EAT-Lancet recommended minimum calorie requirements alongside meeting mitigation ambitions. Further, water withdrawals in agriculture would reduce by half by 2050 in the presence of environmental flow protection and mitigation strategies. We conclude by pointing towards specific cstrategic policy design changes that would be essential to embark on such a sustainable pathway. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1412132025-12-08T09:54:28Z The role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets Jha, Chandan Kumar Singh, Vartika Stevanović, Miodrag Dietrich, Jan Philipp Mosnier, Aline foods sustainable development goals sustainability capacity development land use productivity systems climate change mitigation food security climate change The food and land use sector is a major contributor to India's total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On one hand, India is committed to sustainability targets in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sectors, on the other, there is little clarity whether these objectives can align with national developmental priorities of food security and environmental protection. This study fills the gap by reviewing multiple corridors to sustain the AFOLU systems through an integrated assessment framework using partial equilibrium modeling. We create three pathways that combine the shared socio-economic pathways with alternative assumptions on diets and mitigation strategies. We analyze our results of the pathways on key indicators of land-use change, GHG emissions, food security, water withdrawals in agriculture, agricultural trade and production diversity. Our findings indicate that dietary shift, improved efficiency in livestock production systems, lower fertilizer use, and higher yield through sustainable intensification can reduce GHG emissions from the AFOLU sectors up to 80% by 2050. Dietary shifts could help meet EAT-Lancet recommended minimum calorie requirements alongside meeting mitigation ambitions. Further, water withdrawals in agriculture would reduce by half by 2050 in the presence of environmental flow protection and mitigation strategies. We conclude by pointing towards specific cstrategic policy design changes that would be essential to embark on such a sustainable pathway. 2022-07-01 2024-04-12T13:37:28Z 2024-04-12T13:37:28Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141213 en Open Access IOP Publishing Jha, Chandan Kumar; Singh, Vartika; Stevanović, Miodrag; Dietrich, Jan Philipp; Mosnier, Aline; et al. 2022. The role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets. Environmental Research Letters 17(7): 074022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac788a |
| spellingShingle | foods sustainable development goals sustainability capacity development land use productivity systems climate change mitigation food security climate change Jha, Chandan Kumar Singh, Vartika Stevanović, Miodrag Dietrich, Jan Philipp Mosnier, Aline The role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets |
| title | The role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets |
| title_full | The role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets |
| title_fullStr | The role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets |
| title_short | The role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets |
| title_sort | role of food and land use systems in achieving india s sustainability targets |
| topic | foods sustainable development goals sustainability capacity development land use productivity systems climate change mitigation food security climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141213 |
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