Kerstin Engström

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used country-level panel data (1961-2011) to allocate the land areas used to produce food for human consumption, waste and biofuels, and attribute the food production area changes to diet, population and yields drivers.

TL;DR: It is concluded that improving the quality and consistency of observational data utilized in the modeling process and improving the allocation mechanisms of LULC change models remain important challenges.

TL;DR: A higher degree of uncertainty exists in land use projections than currently included in climate or earth system projections, and it is recommended to use a diverse set of models and approaches when assessing the potential impacts of land cover change on future climate.

TL;DR: It was found that under current assumptions of future food requirements, it was not possible to also produce significant amounts of first generation bioenergy without cropland expansion, suggesting that meeting food and bioenergy demands within the planetary boundaries would need a shift away from current trends.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a modelling framework to simulate probabilistic futures of global cropland areas that are conditional on the SSP (shared socioeconomic pathway) scenarios.