Key Issues of Land Use, Land Cover, and Food-Energy-Environment Trade-Off: Revisiting MDGs in the light of Sustainable Development Goals

Gouranga G. Das and Saswati Paul

No 1803, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: This article offers a synoptic overview of land use, land cover, and ensuing changes in them in the wake of drivers and anthropogenic changes in global biosphere. Also, it discusses the effects of such changes on global greenhouse gases, causing climate change and affecting biodiversity. This is also associated with factors leading to land acquisition, its distribution, management and preservation as that affects access to food and nutritional values for inclusive development. Given the preponderant role ascribed to climate change, land-use, food security, and human development in the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals, scientific research from a multidisciplinary perspective is needed for informed debate on growth, poverty, and the environment nexus. In particular, the current focus of Sustainable Development Goals with 17 goals and 169 targets adds new dimensions into it. This article offers a holistic view covering commonalities and differences of MDGs vis-à-vis SDGs. Also, the aspect of circular economy is discussed to throw new lights. A conceptual framework for analytical modeling to study the myriads of interlinkages is sketched.

Keywords: Agriculture; Analytical models; Biofuel; Climate change; Development; Food security; Forestry; Land cover; Land use; Sustainability; MDG; SDG; Circular Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q16 Q23 Q24 Q28 Q56 Q57 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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