Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions

Project Information

MIDLAND

Grant agreement ID: 677140

DOI 10.3030/677140

Project closed

EC signature date 29 April 2016

Start date 1 May 2016

End date 30 April 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 498 420,00

EU contribution € 1 498 420,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
Belgium

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (39)

Waves and legacies: The making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique

Author(s): Angela Kronenburg García, Patrick Meyfroidt, Dilini Abeygunawardane, Almeida Sitoe
Published in: Ecology & Society, 2022, ISSN 1708-3087
Publisher: The Resilience Alliance
DOI: 10.5751/es-13159-270140

Towards a Theory of Claim Making: Bridging Access and Property Theory

Author(s): Kronenburg García, Angela; van Dijk, Han
Published in: Society and Natural Resources, Issue 33:2, 2019, Page(s) 167-183, ISSN 0894-1920
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1559381

Strategic Spatial Planning in Emerging Land-Use Frontiers – Evidence from Mozambique

Author(s): Eduardo Oliveira, Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Ecology & Society, 2022, ISSN 1708-3087
Publisher: The Resilience Alliance
DOI: 10.5751/es-13001-270205

Forest-linked livelihoods in a globalized world

Author(s): Johan A. Oldekop, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Arun Agrawal, Anthony J. Bebbington, Patrick Meyfroidt, David N. Bengston, Allen Blackman, Stephen Brooks, Iain Davidson-Hunt, Penny Davies, Stanley C. Dinsi, Lorenza B. Fontana, Tatiana Gumucio, Chetan Kumar, Kundan Kumar, Dominic Moran, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Robert Nasi, Margareta Nilsson, Miguel A. Pinedo-Vasquez, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, William J. Sutherlan
Published in: Nature Plants, Issue 6/12, 2020, Page(s) 1400-1407, ISSN 2055-0278
Publisher: Nature Research
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-00814-9

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

Author(s): Meyfroidt P., de Bremond A., Ryan C. M., Archer E., Aspinall R., Chhabra A., Camara G., Corbera E., DeFries R., Díaz S., Dong J., Ellis E. C., Erb K.-H., Fisher J. A., Garrett R. D., Golubiewski N. E., Grau H. R., Grove J. M., Haberl H., Heinimann A., Hostert P., Jobbágy E. G., Kerr S., Kuemmerle T., Lambin E. F., Lavorel S., Lele S., Mertz O., Messerli P., Metternicht G., Munroe D. K., Nagendra
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2022, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: United States National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109217118

Framing the search for a theory of land use

Author(s): BL Turner, Patrick Meyfroidt, Tobias Kuemmerle, Daniel Müller, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Published in: Journal of Land Use Science, Issue 15/4, 2020, Page(s) 489-508, ISSN 1747-423X
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1747423x.2020.1811792

Resource frontiers and agglomeration economies: The varied logics of land-based investing in Southern and Eastern Africa

Author(s): Dilini Abeygunawardane, Angela Kronenburg García, Daniel Müller, Zhanli Sun, Almeida Sitoe, Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Ambio, 2022, ISSN 0044-7447
Publisher: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01682-z

Identifying Agricultural Frontiers for Modeling Global Cropland Expansion

Author(s): Felix Eigenbrod, Michael Beckmann, Sebastian Dunnett, Laura Graham, Robert A. Holland, Patrick Meyfroidt, Ralf Seppelt, Xiao-Peng Song, Rebecca Spake, Tomáš Václavík, Peter H. Verburg
Published in: One Earth, Issue 3/4, 2020, Page(s) 504-514, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.006

Long- and Short-Run Forest Dynamics: An Empirical Assessment of Forest Transition, Environmental Kuznets Curve and Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theories

Author(s): Virginia Rodriguez García; Nicola Caravaggio; Frédéric Gaspart; Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Forests, Vol 12, Iss 431, p 431 (2021), Issue 4, 2021, ISSN 1999-4907
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/f12040431

Mapping smallholder and large-scale cropland dynamics with a flexible classification system and pixel-based composites in an emerging frontier of Mozambique

Author(s): Adia Bey, Julieta Jetimane, Sá Nogueira Lisboa, Natasha Ribeiro, Almeida Sitoe, Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, Issue 239, 2020, Page(s) 111611, ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111611

Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world

Author(s): P Meyfroidt, J Börner, R Garrett, T Gardner, J Godar, K Kis-Katos, B S Soares-Filho, S Wunder
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 15/9, 2020, Page(s) 090202, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab7397

Disentangling three decades of strategic spatial planning in England through participation, project promotion and policy integration

Author(s): Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat; Eduardo Oliveira
Published in: European Planning Studies, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 1469-5944
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2020.1863920

Agricultural intensification and land use change: assessing country-level induced intensification, land sparing and rebound effect

Author(s): Virginia Rodríguez García, Frédéric Gaspart, Thomas Kastner, Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 15/8, 2020, Page(s) 085007, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab8b14

Surplus to extraction: Resettlement as a “make live” intervention in Mozambique

Author(s): Wiegink N., Angela Kronenburg García
Published in: The Extractive Industries and Society, 2022, ISSN 2214-7918
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.101036

World regional and cultural footprints and environmental sustainability: Analysis of socioeconomic determinants

Author(s): Oliveira, Eduardo
Published in: Regional Studies, Issue 1, 2019, ISSN 1360-0591
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1577003

Uncovering major types of deforestation frontiers across the world's tropical dry woodlands

Author(s): Buchadas, Ana; Baumann, Matthias; Meyfroidt, Patrick; Kuemmerle, Tobias
Published in: Nature Sustainability, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-022-00886-9

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Author(s): Eduardo Oliveira
Published in: Regional Studies, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 1360-0591
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1802860

Trade-offs between environment and livelihoods: Bridging the global land use and food security discussions

Author(s): Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Global Food Security, Issue 16, 2018, Page(s) 9-16, ISSN 2211-9124
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2017.08.001

Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains

Author(s): T.A. Gardner, M. Benzie, J. Börner, E. Dawkins, S. Fick, R. Garrett, J. Godar, A. Grimard, S. Lake, R.K. Larsen, N. Mardas, C.L. McDermott, P. Meyfroidt, M. Osbeck, M. Persson, T. Sembres, C. Suavet, B. Strassburg, A. Trevisan, C. West, P. Wolvekamp
Published in: World Development, 2018, ISSN 0305-750X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.05.025

Representation of decision-making in European agricultural agent-based models

Author(s): Robert Huber, Martha Bakker, Alfons Balmann, Thomas Berger, Mike Bithell, Calum Brown, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Hang Xiong, Quang Bao Le, Gabriele Mack, Patrick Meyfroidt, James Millington, Birgit Müller, J. Gareth Polhill, Zhanli Sun, Roman Seidl, Christian Troost, Robert Finger
Published in: Agricultural Systems, Issue 167, 2018, Page(s) 143-160, ISSN 0308-521X
Publisher: Applied Science Publishers
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2018.09.007

Middle-range theories of land system change

Author(s): P. Meyfroidt, R. Roy Chowdhury, A. de Bremond, E.C. Ellis, K.-H. Erb, T. Filatova, R.D. Garrett, J.M. Grove, A. Heinimann, T. Kuemmerle, C.A. Kull, E.F. Lambin, Y. Landon, Y. le Polain de Waroux, P. Messerli, D. Müller, J.Ø. Nielsen, G.D. Peterson, V. Rodriguez García, M. Schlüter, B.L. Turner, P.H. Verburg
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 53, 2018, Page(s) 52-67, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.006

Mapping farm size globally: benchmarking the smallholders debate

Author(s): Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 12/3, 2017, Page(s) 031002, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5ef6

From Herding to Farming under Adaptation Interventions in Southern Kenya: A Critical Perspective

Author(s): Ruben Weesie, Angela Kronenburg García
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 10/12, 2018, Page(s) 4386, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su10124386

Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies

Author(s): Karl-Heinz Erb, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Patrick Meyfroidt, Julia Pongratz, Axel Don, Silvia Kloster, Tobias Kuemmerle, Tamara Fetzel, Richard Fuchs, Martin Herold, Helmut Haberl, Chris D. Jones, Erika Marín-Spiotta, Ian McCallum, Eddy Robertson, Verena Seufert, Steffen Fritz, Aude Valade, Andrew Wiltshire, Albertus J. Dolman
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 23/2, 2017, Page(s) 512-533, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13443

Territorial Conflicts, Agency and the Strategic Appropriation of Interventions in Kenya’s Southern Drylands

Author(s): Angela Kronenburg García
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 10/11, 2018, Page(s) 4156, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su10114156

Rents, Actors, and the Expansion of Commodity Frontiers in the Gran Chaco

Author(s): Yann le Polain de Waroux, Matthias Baumann, Nestor Ignacio Gasparri, Gregorio Gavier-Pizarro, Javier Godar, Tobias Kuemmerle, Robert Müller, Fabricio Vázquez, José Norberto Volante, Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Issue 108/1, 2017, Page(s) 204-225, ISSN 2469-4452
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1360761

Whither the forest transition? Climate change, policy responses, and redistributed forests in the twenty-first century

Author(s): Thomas K. Rudel, Patrick Meyfroidt, Robin Chazdon, Frans Bongers, Sean Sloan, H. Ricardo Grau, Tracy Van Holt, Laura Schneider
Published in: Ambio, 2019, ISSN 0044-7447
Publisher: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-018-01143-0

Archetype analysis in sustainability research: meanings, motivations, and evidence-based policy making

Author(s): Christoph Oberlack, Diana Sietz, Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi, Ariane de Bremond, Jampel Dell'Angelo, Klaus Eisenack, Erle C. Ellis, Graham Epstein, Markus Giger, Andreas Heinimann, Christian Kimmich, Marcel TJ Kok, David Manuel-Navarrete, Peter Messerli, Patrick Meyfroidt, TomᚠVáclavík, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
Published in: Ecology and Society, Issue 24/2, 2019, ISSN 1708-3087
Publisher: The Resilience Alliance
DOI: 10.5751/es-10747-240226

Interactions between land systems and food systems

Author(s): Patrick Meyfroidt, Dilini Abeygunawardane, Navin Ramankutty, Allison Thomson, Gete Zeleke
Published in: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Issue 38, 2019, Page(s) 60-67, ISSN 1877-3435
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.010

Governing flows in telecoupled land systems

Author(s): Darla K Munroe, Mateus Batistella, Cecilie Friis, Nestor Ignacio Gasparri, Eric F Lambin, Jianguo Liu, Patrick Meyfroidt, Emilio Moran, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen
Published in: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Issue 38, 2019, Page(s) 53-59, ISSN 1877-3435
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.05.004

Toward a normative land systems science

Author(s): Jonas Ø Nielsen, Ariane de Bremond, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Cecilie Friis, Graciela Metternicht, Patrick Meyfroidt, Darla Munroe, Unai Pascual, Allison Thomson
Published in: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Issue 38, 2019, Page(s) 1-6, ISSN 1877-3435
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.02.003

Sustainable intensification in land systems: trade-offs, scales, and contexts

Author(s): Allison M Thomson, Erle C Ellis, HÉctor Ricardo Grau, Tobias Kuemmerle, Patrick Meyfroidt, Navin Ramankutty, Gete Zeleke
Published in: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Issue 38, 2019, Page(s) 37-43, ISSN 1877-3435
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.04.011

Emerging agricultural expansion in northern regions: Insights from land-use research

Author(s): P. Meyfroidt
Published in: One Earth, 2021, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.11.019

Improved land monitoring to assess large-scale tree plantation expansion and trajectories in Northern Mozambique

Author(s): Adia Bey; Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Environmental Research Communications, Issue 4, 2021, ISSN 2515-7620
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ac26ab

Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems

Author(s): Florian Schierhorn, Thomas Kastner, Tobias Kuemmerle, Patrick Meyfroidt, Irina Kurganova, Alexander V Prishchepov, Karl-Heinz Erb, Richard A Houghton, Daniel Müller
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 14/6, 2019, Page(s) 065009, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab1cf1

Why care about theories? Innovative ways of theorizing in sustainability science

Author(s): Schlüter M., Caniglia G., Orach K., Bodin Ö., Magliocca N., Meyfroidt P., Reyers B.
Published in: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2022, ISSN 1877-3435
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101154

Strategic land-use planning instruments in tropical regions: state of the art and future research.

Author(s): Eduardo Oliveira; Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1747-4248
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1747423x.2021.2015471

Understanding the Stickiness of Commodity Supply Chains Is Key to Improving Their Sustainability

Author(s): Tiago N.P. dos Reis, Patrick Meyfroidt, Erasmus K.H.J. zu Ermgassen, Chris West, Toby Gardner, Simon Bager, Simon Croft, Michael J. Lathuillière, Javier Godar
Published in: One Earth, Issue 3/1, 2020, Page(s) 100-115, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Cell press
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.012

Conservation frontiers: understanding the geographic expansion of conservation

Author(s): Ana Buchadas, Siyu Qin, Patrick Meyfroidt, Tobias Kuemmerle
Published in: Journal of land use science, 2022, ISSN 1747-4248
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1747423x.2021.2018516

Other (4)

Balancing the trade-offs between land productivity, labor productivity and labor intensity

Author(s): Cristina Chiarella, Patrick Meyfroidt, Dilini Abeygunawardane, Piero Conforti
Published in: AgrirXiv, 2022
Publisher: CABI
DOI: 10.31220/agrirxiv.2022.00137

An operational framework for large-area mapping of active cropland and short-term fallows in smallholder landscapes using PlanetScope data

Author(s): Philippe Rufin, Adia Bey, Michelle Picoli, Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: EarthArXiv, 2022
Publisher: EarthArXiv
DOI: 10.31223/x5p62f

A mid-20th century estimate of global vegetation carbon stocks based on inventory statistics

Author(s): Manan Bhan; Patrick Meyfroidt; Sarah Matej; Karl-Heinz Erb; Simone Gingrich
Published in: EarthArXiv, 2022
Publisher: California Digital Library
DOI: 10.31223/x56055

The segmetric Package: Metrics for Assessing Segmentation Accuracy for Geospatial Data

Author(s): Rolf Simoes, Alber Sanchez, Michelle C. A. Picoli, Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Unpublished

Conference proceedings (1)

Unsupervised segmentation of smallholder fields in Mozambique using PlanetScope imagery

Author(s): Michelle Picoli, Julien Radoux, Xiaoye Tong, Adia Bey, Philippe Rufin, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: XXIV ISPRS Congress, 2022
Publisher: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-xliii-b3-2022-975-2022