Regional land use efficiency and nutritional quality of protein production

Ilkka Leinonen; Pietro P.M. Iannetta; Michael MacLeod; Robert M. Rees; Wendy Russell; Christine Watson; Andrew P. Barnes

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100386

Regional land use efficiency and nutritional quality of protein production

Ilkka Leinonen^*, Pietro P.M. Iannetta, Michael MacLeod, Robert M. Rees, Wendy Russell, Christine Watson, Andrew P. Barnes

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The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health

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Abstract

Strategies for achieving environmental sustainability of protein production vary regionally. In this study, a framework was applied that would quantify a region-specific contribution to global protein supply with a special focus on protein quality i.e. essential amino acid composition. The framework was applied in Scotland and showed that high-quality human-edible protein from that region currently emerges mainly from animal production. Considering future protein scenarios, the land requirement for pulses for producing a certain amount of essential amino acids in Scotland would be similar to the land requirement for potentially human-edible feeds needed in cattle production. Reducing the current use of agricultural by-products in livestock feeding would considerably increase the land use demand for other, potentially human edible feed crops.

Original language	English
Article number	100386
Journal	Global Food Security
Volume	26
Early online date	8 Jun 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100386
Publication status	Published - Sept 2020

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Scottish Government , through the Rural Affairs and the Environment Portfolio Strategic Research Programme 2016–2021, WP 1.4 ‘Integrated and Sustainable Management of Natural Assets’, and the SEFARI Gateway project, “Pathways toward a sustainable protein economy”. RMR and PPMI are also supported by the EU-H2020 funded project TRUE ( www.true-project.eu ), Grant Agreement number 727973 .

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Keywords

Amino acids
Climate change
Food production
Land use
Livestock
Protein

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