Global patterns of commodity-driven deforestation and associated carbon emissions
Chandrakant Singh · U. Martin Persson
期刊Nature Food / Nat Food
类型Article
发表2026-02-23 (online)
卷期页7(2): 138-151
收录2026-10-04
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关键词deforestationCO2 emissionsagricultural commoditiescattle meatoil palmrubbersoybeanTheobroma cacaocoffeestaple crops
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快速的农业驱动砍伐对实现气候和生物多样性目标构成了巨大挑战。然而,可用数据集有限且全面性有限,限制了其支持森林保护和气候变化缓解工作的有效性。通过整合最佳的空间和统计数据集,我们的森林砍伐归因框架(DeDuCE)详细量化了与农业和林业商品生产相关的森林砍伐情况。DeDuCE报告了2001年至2022年间,179个国家和184种商品的独特国家-商品森林-碳足迹。我们的发现表明,虽然全球遏制森林砍伐的努力恰当聚焦于牛肉、油棕、橡胶、大豆、可可和咖啡,但全球监测工作大多忽视了水稻、玉米和木薯等主食作物。鉴于它们对森林砍伐和碳排放的重大贡献,平衡粮食安全与森林和气候保护需要对这些作物的更多关注。
Rapid agriculture-driven deforestation poses considerable challenges to achieving climate and biodiversity targets. However, the limited scope and comprehensiveness of the datasets available for linking deforestation to food production restrict their effectiveness in supporting forest conservation and climate change mitigation efforts. By integrating the best available spatial and statistical datasets, our deforestation attribution framework (DeDuCE) provides a detailed quantification of deforestation associated with the production of agricultural and forestry commodities. DeDuCE reports 9,332 unique country–commodity deforestation–carbon footprints across 179 countries and 184 commodities annually from 2001 to 2022. Our findings indicate that while global efforts to curb deforestation appropriately focus on cattle meat, oil palm, rubber, soya, cocoa and coffee, global monitoring efforts have largely overlooked staple crops such as rice, maize and cassava. Given their substantial contribution to deforestation and carbon emissions, balancing food security with forest and climate conservation will require greater attention to these crops.

@article{singh2026,
author = {Chandrakant Singh and U. Martin Persson},
title = {Global patterns of commodity-driven deforestation and associated carbon emissions},
journal = {Nature Food},
year = {2026},
volume = {7},
number = {2},
pages = {138-151},
doi = {10.1038/s43016-026-01305-4},
publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
}· END ·