Assessing the energy trap of industrial agriculture in North
America and Europe: 82 balances from 1830 to 2012

J 2023

Assessing the energy trap of industrial agriculture in North America and Europe: 82 balances from 1830 to 2012

TELLO, Enric; Vera SACRISTÁN; José R OLARIETA; Claudio CATTANEO; Joan MARULL et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Assessing the energy trap of industrial agriculture in North America and Europe: 82 balances from 1830 to 2012

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Vydání

Agronomy for Sustainable Development, Paris, Springer, 2023, 1774-0746

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10511 Environmental sciences

Stát vydavatele

Francie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

article - open access

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Impact factor: 6.400

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Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/23:00132197

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

Agricultural systems; EROI (energy return on energy investment); Agroecosystem; Circularity; Socioecological transition; Dietary transition; Forest transition

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rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 30. 1. 2024 09:52, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

Early energy analyses of agriculture revealed that behind higher labor and land productivity of industrial farming, there was a decrease in energy returns on energy (EROI) invested, in comparison to more traditional organic agricultural systems. Studies on recent trends show that efficiency gains in production and use of inputs have again somewhat improved energy returns. However, most of these agricultural energy studies have focused only on external inputs at the crop level, concealing the important role of internal biomass flows that livestock and forestry recirculate within agroecosystems. Here, we synthesize the results of 82 farm systems in North America and Europe from 1830 to 2012 that for the first time show the changing energy profiles of agroecosystems, including livestock and forestry, with a multi-EROI approach that accounts for the energy returns on external inputs, on internal biomass reuses, and on all inputs invested. With this historical circular bioeconomic approach, we found a general trend towards much lower external returns, little or no increases in internal returns, and almost no improvement in total returns. This “energy trap” was driven by shifts towards a growing dependence of crop production on fossil-fueled external inputs, much more intensive livestock production based on feed grains, less forestry, and a structural disintegration of agroecosystem components by increasingly linear industrial farm managements. We conclude that overcoming the energy trap requires nature-based solutions to reduce current dependence on fossil-fueled external industrial inputs and increase the circularity and complexity of agroecosystems to provide healthier diets with less animal products.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1439/2022, interní kód MU

Název: Odolnost společnosti v dobách krizí

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Odolnost společnosti v dobách krizí

Přiložené soubory

Assessing_the_energy_trap_of_industrial_agriculture_in_North_America.pdf

Citovat

TELLO, Enric; Vera SACRISTÁN; José R OLARIETA; Claudio CATTANEO; Joan MARULL; Manel PONS; Simone GINGRICH; Fridolin KRAUSMANN; Elena GALÁN; Inés MARCO; Roc PADRÓ; Gloria I. GUZMÁN; Manuel GONZÁLEZ DE MOLINA; Geoff CUNFER; Andrew WATSON; Joshua MACFADYEN; Eva FRAŇKOVÁ; Eduardo AGUILERA; Juan INFANTE-AMATE; Alexander URREGO-MESA; David SOTO; Lluis PARCERISAS; Jérôme DUPRAS; Lucía DÍEZ-SANJUÁN; Jonathan CARAVACA; Laura GÓMEZ; Onofre FULLANA; Ivan MURRAY; Gabriel JOVER; Xavier CUSSÓ a Ramon GARRABOU. Assessing the energy trap of industrial agriculture in North America and Europe: 82 balances from 1830 to 2012. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. Paris: Springer, 2023, roč. 43, č. 6, s. 1-19. ISSN 1774-0746. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-023-00925-5.

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N2  - Early energy analyses of agriculture revealed that behind higher labor and land productivity of industrial farming, there was a decrease in energy returns on energy (EROI) invested, in comparison to more traditional organic agricultural systems. Studies on recent trends show that efficiency gains in production and use of inputs have again somewhat improved energy returns. However, most of these agricultural energy studies have focused only on external inputs at the crop level, concealing the important role of internal biomass flows that livestock and forestry recirculate within agroecosystems. Here, we synthesize the results of 82 farm systems in North America and Europe from 1830 to 2012 that for the first time show the changing energy profiles of agroecosystems, including livestock and forestry, with a multi-EROI approach that accounts for the energy returns on external inputs, on internal biomass reuses, and on all inputs invested. With this historical circular bioeconomic approach, we found a general trend towards much lower external returns, little or no increases in internal returns, and almost no improvement in total returns. This “energy trap” was driven by shifts towards a growing dependence of crop production on fossil-fueled external inputs, much more intensive livestock production based on feed grains, less forestry, and a structural disintegration of agroecosystem components by increasingly linear industrial farm managements. We conclude that overcoming the energy trap requires nature-based solutions to reduce current dependence on fossil-fueled external industrial inputs and increase the circularity and complexity of agroecosystems to provide healthier diets with less animal products.
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TELLO, Enric; Vera SACRISTÁN; José R OLARIETA; Claudio CATTANEO; Joan MARULL; Manel PONS; Simone GINGRICH; Fridolin KRAUSMANN; Elena GALÁN; Inés MARCO; Roc PADRÓ; Gloria I. GUZMÁN; Manuel GONZÁLEZ DE MOLINA; Geoff CUNFER; Andrew WATSON; Joshua MACFADYEN; Eva FRAŇKOVÁ; Eduardo AGUILERA; Juan INFANTE-AMATE; Alexander URREGO-MESA; David SOTO; Lluis PARCERISAS; Jérôme DUPRAS; Lucía DÍEZ-SANJUÁN; Jonathan CARAVACA; Laura GÓMEZ; Onofre FULLANA; Ivan MURRAY; Gabriel JOVER; Xavier CUSSÓ a Ramon GARRABOU. Assessing the energy trap of industrial agriculture in North America and Europe: 82 balances from 1830 to 2012. \textit{Agronomy for Sustainable Development}. Paris: Springer, 2023, roč.~43, č.~6, s.~1-19. ISSN~1774-0746. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-023-00925-5.

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