Spatial transfer and environmental inequalities of pressures on cropland ecosystemsin China

Keywords: Ecosystem pressure; Food trade; spatial transfer
Abstract Type: Paper Abstract

Abstract

Driven by the coupled effects of cropland displacement and population migration, the spatial distance between food supply and demand regions is gradually increasing. As a vital link between food production and consumption areas, China’s interprovincial food trade not only plays a key role in alleviating human-land conflicts but also inevitably transfers the ecological pressure on arable land from the place of consumption to the place of production. Additionally, quantitative analysis that revealing the disproportional relationship between the ecoststem pressures on cropland and the economic gains along China' domestic supply chains when participating in Interprovincial food trade is important for addressing regional environmental inequalities.