Global land footprint of UK food and feed imports under future socioeconomic scenarios

Bartlomiej Arendarczyk; Sam Rabin; Daniel Bampoh; Almut Arneth; Calum Brown; Mark Rounsevell; Peter Alexander

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0352499

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Global land footprint of UK food and feed imports under future socioeconomic scenarios

Bartlomiej Arendarczyk ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: bart.arendarczyk@ed.ac.uk

Affiliation School of GeoSciences, Drummond Street, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7612-9550

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Sam Rabin,

Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Daniel Bampoh,

Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kreuzeckbahnstraße, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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Almut Arneth,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kreuzeckbahnstraße, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Institute of Geography & Geo-ecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technolog, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Calum Brown,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kreuzeckbahnstraße, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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Mark Rounsevell,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of GeoSciences, Drummond Street, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kreuzeckbahnstraße, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Institute of Geography & Geo-ecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technolog, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Peter Alexander

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of GeoSciences, Drummond Street, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Global land footprint of UK food and feed imports under future socioeconomic scenarios

Bartlomiej Arendarczyk,
Sam Rabin,
Daniel Bampoh,
Almut Arneth,
Calum Brown,
Mark Rounsevell,
Peter Alexander

Published: June 30, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0352499

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