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SUBMITTER: Boerema A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4887031 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boerema Annelies A Peeters Alain A Swolfs Sanne S Vandevenne Floor F Jacobs Sander S Staes Jan J Meire Patrick P
PloS one 20160531 5
The trade in soybean, an important animal feed product, exemplifies the environmental and socio-economic impact of global markets and global agricultural policy. This paper analyses the impact of increasing production of soybean in the exporting countries (deforestation and grassland conversion) as well as in importing regions (decrease in permanent grassland by substitution of grass as feed). Ecosystem services monetary values were used to calculate the environmental and socio-economic impact o ...[more]