Global arable land transfers embodied in Mainland China’s foreign trade

Mengyao Han and Guoqian Chen

Land Use Policy, 2018, vol. 70, issue C, 521-534

Abstract: The process of globalization increases spatial separation of basic resources in terms of demand and supply across multiple countries/regions, thereby leading to the shift of environmental pressure mainly triggered by population expansion and economic growth via global supply chains. To comprehensively analyze Mainland China’s arable land use issues, the present work illustrates its arable land transfers embodied in foreign trade based on a multi-regional input-output analysis. In total, the trade volume of Mainland China’s arable land transfers is revealed in magnitude up to 70% of its direct arable land area. With a distinction between production- and consumption-based transfers, Mainland China exports 27.18Mha (million hectares) of embodied arable land to other economies, while it imports 48.35Mha of embodied arable land, making it a large force for agricultural industry development and arable land utilization in regions such as ASEAN, EU27, and Africa. The relations, pressures, and structures of embodied arable land related to Mainland China are clearly depicted from the global perspective. With detailed embodied arable land transfer profiles, it is practical to comprehensively analyze Mainland China’s arable land utilization via supply chains from the global perspective for essential policy implications in reasonably reshaping Mainland China’s economic structures and trade patterns.

Keywords: Embodied arable land; Global supply chain; Mainland China; Input-output analysis; Arable land transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.07.022

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