Food systems vitally depend on croplands, which are a scarce natural resource. Croplands
are also heterogeneous, differing in productive capability and in environmental context.
Some are in regions of high biodiversity conservation importance, others in regions
vulnerable to food insecurity. In this study, life cycle assessment was used to quantify
cropland scarcity footprints, cropland biodiversity footprints and cropland malnutrition
footprints for 9341 individual Australian adult daily diets. Dietary cropland scarcity footprints …