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Bioengineering, telecoupling, and alternative dairy: Agricultural land use futures in the Anthropocene
The Geographical Journal ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-21 , DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12392
Lenore Newman 1 , Robert Newell 1 , Zsofia Mendly‐Zambo 1, 2 , Lisa Powell 3
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The global environmental impact of rising consumption of animal products presents significant challenges to sustainable land use. One alternative to the production of animal products is a set of technologies for culturing meat and dairy alternatives referred to as “cellular agriculture”; in the case of dairy, “cellular dairy”. Optimism around the benefits of these technologies is widespread, and they fit within a larger narrative of land sparing, in which high-yield farming allows the protection of habitats and the return of fallow land to ecological uses. However, questions remain as to whether cellular dairy is truly land sparing because although lab dairy could offer significant ecological benefits, these could be countered by increases in agricultural activity in other regions for the production of feedstocks. In addition, considerations around broader impacts to individuals, communities, and the environment are needed to understand whether/how cellular dairy aligns or conflicts with local, regional, and global sustainability goals. This paper employs the concept of telecoupling, which refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances, to examine the potential cellular dairy may have for contributing to sustainable food production and consumption. The research uses British Columba, Canada as a case study, and it explores three policy scenarios: (1) incentives for the growth of a cellular dairy industry, (2) cellular dairy incentivization with eco-certification, and (3) cellular dairy incentivization with local sourcing of feedstock. The work is exploratory rather than predictive, meaning rather than forecasting outcomes, it stimulates ideas on potential direct and indirect impacts, feedback processes, and social and institutional changes associated with each scenario. The research demonstrates that exploring scenarios through a telecoupling lens can be useful for policy-makers and analysts because it facilitates comprehensive and multi-scalar thinking on the ecological, social, economic, and political factors associated with different policy options.

中文翻译:

生物工程、远程耦合和替代乳制品:人类世的农业土地利用期货

动物产品消费增加对全球环境的影响对可持续土地利用提出了重大挑战。动物产品生产的一种替代方法是一套用于培养肉类和奶制品替代品的技术,称为“细胞农业”;在乳制品的情况下,“细胞乳制品”。围绕这些技术的好处的乐观情绪普遍存在,它们符合土地节约的更大叙述,其中高产农业可以保护栖息地和休耕地恢复生态用途。然而,关于细胞乳制品是否真正节约土地的问题仍然存在,因为尽管实验室乳制品可以提供显着的生态效益,但这些可能会被其他地区用于生产原料的农业活动的增加所抵消。此外,需要考虑对个人、社区和环境的更广泛影响,以了解细胞乳制品是否/如何与当地、区域和全球可持续发展目标相一致或相冲突。本文采用远程耦合的概念,它指的是远距离的社会经济和环境相互作用,以检查潜在的细胞乳制品可能对可持续食品生产和消费的贡献。该研究以加拿大不列颠哥伦巴市为案例研究,探讨了三种政策情景:(1) 细胞乳业发展的激励措施,(2) 具有生态认证的细胞乳业激励,以及 (3) 细胞乳业激励与当地采购原料。这项工作是探索性的而不是预测性的,意义而不是预测结果,它激发了对与每种情景相关的潜在直接和间接影响、反馈过程以及社会和制度变化的想法。该研究表明,通过远程耦合镜头探索情景对政策制定者和分析师很有用,因为它有助于对与不同政策选项相关的生态、社会、经济和政治因素进行全面和多尺度的思考。
更新日期:2021-04-21
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