Maria Cristina Rulli
Biographic Data
| ID | 236103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Cristina Rulli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Rulli |
| SIGNATURE | RULLI M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Milano |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9694-4262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Meeting the EAT-Lancet ‘healthy’ diet target while protecting land and water resources
Appropriation pathways of water grabbing
We examine the different institutional and biophysical conditions that characterize the dynamics of water appropriation. • We identify the major pathways underlying water grabbing. • We investigate the nexus between water tenure arrangements and neglected hydrological pathways of water appropriation to critically evaluate their impact on access to water. The appropriation of water by farmers, land investors, mining operations, hydropower corporat…
Transnational agricultural land acquisitions threaten biodiversity in the Global South
Agricultural large-scale land acquisitions have been linked with enhanced deforestation and land use change. Yet the extent to which transnational agricultural large-scale land acquisitions (TALSLAs) contribute to—or merely correlate with—deforestation, and the expected biodiversity impacts of the intended land use changes across ecosystems, remains unclear. We examine 178 georeferenced TALSLA locations in 40 countries to address this gap. While …
Global assessment of land and water resource demand for pork supply
Growing population and rising incomes are leading to an ever-increasing demand for animal-based foods. Pigmeat is currently the most consumed meat globally, even exceeding the consumption of poultry meat. Despite the disproportionate environmental burden of animal production—mostly attributable to associated feed demand, up-to-date country-scale quantifications of the land and water impacts of the concentrate feed (mainly cereals and soybean) and…
Socio-hydrological features of armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin
Large‐scale land acquisition as a potential driver of slope instability
Recently, vast tracts of land have been acquired by foreign and domestic–foreign partnerships to satisfy an increasing demand for agricultural products, often resulting in the conversion of forested landscapes into agricultural fields. Those conversions often occur in areas characterized by high slope angles with the potential to cause mass wasting and shallow landslides. An interesting case‐study is the Licungo basin in Mozambique, where from 20…
A growing produce bubble
Global analyses have revealed virtual drains and gains of water between trading countries, with Mexico ranking as one of the countries with the fastest increase in unsustainable water consumption in agriculture for export markets, since 2000. It is unclear, however, how Mexico has reshaped its crop production and associated reliance on freshwater resources to satisfy growing domestic and international markets, especially the United States (US). W…
Hydrological consequences of natural rubber plantations in Southeast Asia
Since the turn of the century, rubber plantations have been expanding their footprint across Southeast Asia in response to an increasing global demand for rubber products. Between 2000 and 2014, the area cultivated with rubber more than doubled. It is not clear how this major change in the agricultural landscape of Southeast Asia, the main area of rubber production in the world, is affecting land‐use patterns and water resources in the region. He…
Global unsustainable virtual water flows in agricultural trade
Recent studies have highlighted the reliance of global food production on unsustainable irrigation practices, which deplete freshwater stocks and environmental flows, and consequently impair aquatic ecosystems. Unsustainable irrigation is driven by domestic and international demand for agricultural products. Research on the environmental consequences of trade has often concentrated on the global displacement of pollution and land use, while the e…
The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus
Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an important role in the production of energy, including renewable energy sources and the extraction of unconventional fossil fuels that are expected to become important players in future energy security. The emergent competition for water between the food and energy sys…
Closing the yield gap while ensuring water sustainability
Water is a major factor limiting crop production in many regions around the world. Irrigation can greatly enhance crop yields, but the local availability and timing of freshwater resources constrains the ability of humanity to increase food production. Innovations in irrigation infrastructure have allowed humanity to utilize previously inaccessible water resources, enhancing water withdrawals for agriculture while increasing pressure on environme…
Resilience in the global food system
Ensuring food security requires food production and distribution systems function throughout disruptions. Understanding the factors that contribute to the global food system's ability to respond and adapt to such disruptions (i.e. resilience) is critical for understanding the long-term sustainability of human populations. Variable impacts of production shocks on food supply between countries indicate a need for national-scale resilience indicator…
Threats to sustainable development posed by land and water grabbing
Since small-scale farmers manage most of the cultivated land worldwide, the ongoing shift in systems of production associated with large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) may dramatically reshape the world's agrarian landscape, significantly impacting rural populations and their livelihoods. The societal, hydrological and environmental implications resulting from the expansion of large-scale agricultural production, through LSLAs, make their ultima…
The Global Water Grabbing Syndrome
Human food vs. animal feed debate. A thorough analysis of environmental footprints
Reserves and trade jointly determine exposure to food supply shocks
While a growing proportion of global food consumption is obtained through international trade, there is an ongoing debate on whether this increased reliance on trade benefits or hinders food security, and specifically, the ability of global food systems to absorb shocks due to local or regional losses of production. This paper introduces a model that simulates the short-term response to a food supply shock originating in a single country, which i…
Past and present biophysical redundancy of countries as a buffer to changes in food supply
Spatially diverse trends in population growth, climate change, industrialization, urbanization and \neconomic development are expected to change future food supply and demand. These changes may \naffect the suitability of land for food production, implying elevated risks especially for resourceconstrained, \nfood-importing countries. We present the evolution of biophysical redundancy for \nagricultural production at country level, from 1992 to 20…
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons
Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous systems of common property. In recent years, large-scale land acquisitions have drastically expanded; it is unclear whether the commons are a preferential target of these acquisitions. Here we argue that the contemporary global “land rush” could be happening at the expense …
Accelerated deforestation driven by large-scale land acquisitions in Cambodia
Global investments in agricultural land and the role of the EU
Food appropriation through large scale land acquisitions
The increasing demand for agricultural products and the uncertainty of international food markets has recently drawn the attention of governments and agribusiness firms toward investments in productive agricultural land, mostly in the developing world. The targeted countries are typically located in regions that have remained only marginally utilized because of lack of modern technology. It is expected that in the long run large scale land acquis…
Land grabbing
Global demands on agricultural land are increasing due to population growth, dietary changes and the use of biofuels. Their effect on food security is to reduce humans' ability to cope with the uncertainties of global climate change. In light of the 2008 food crisis, to secure reliable future access to sufficient agricultural land, many nations and corporations have begun purchasing large tracts of land in the global South, a phenomenon deemed "l…
Global land and water grabbing
Societal pressure on the global land and freshwater resources is increasing as a result of the rising food demand by the growing human population, dietary changes, and the enhancement of biofuel production induced by the rising oil prices and recent changes in United States and European Union bioethanol policies. Many countries and corporations have started to acquire relatively inexpensive and productive agricultural land located in foreign coun…
Reply to ‘The politics of evidence
We are glad to see that Scoones et al. (2013b) have finally stated the reasons for their criticism. Their comments on data reliability are very well taken as we acknowledged in our comment (Rulli a
The science of evidence
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons
Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous systems of common property. In recent years, large-scale land acquisitions have drastically expanded; it is unclear whether the commons are a preferential target of these acquisitions. Here we argue that the contemporary global “land rush” could be happening at the expense …
The Global Water Grabbing Syndrome
Global investments in agricultural land and the role of the EU
Land grabbing
Global demands on agricultural land are increasing due to population growth, dietary changes and the use of biofuels. Their effect on food security is to reduce humans' ability to cope with the uncertainties of global climate change. In light of the 2008 food crisis, to secure reliable future access to sufficient agricultural land, many nations and corporations have begun purchasing large tracts of land in the global South, a phenomenon deemed "l…
Threats to sustainable development posed by land and water grabbing
Since small-scale farmers manage most of the cultivated land worldwide, the ongoing shift in systems of production associated with large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) may dramatically reshape the world's agrarian landscape, significantly impacting rural populations and their livelihoods. The societal, hydrological and environmental implications resulting from the expansion of large-scale agricultural production, through LSLAs, make their ultima…
The science of evidence
Appropriation pathways of water grabbing
We examine the different institutional and biophysical conditions that characterize the dynamics of water appropriation. • We identify the major pathways underlying water grabbing. • We investigate the nexus between water tenure arrangements and neglected hydrological pathways of water appropriation to critically evaluate their impact on access to water. The appropriation of water by farmers, land investors, mining operations, hydropower corporat…
Reply to ‘The politics of evidence
We are glad to see that Scoones et al. (2013b) have finally stated the reasons for their criticism. Their comments on data reliability are very well taken as we acknowledged in our comment (Rulli a
Meeting the EAT-Lancet ‘healthy’ diet target while protecting land and water resources
Corporate Complicity and Finance as a 'Killing Agent
The legal basis for corporate accountability for violations of human rights has evolved robustly over the past decades. Yet, accountability for financial complicity has significantly lagged behind. This article attempts to address this gap in order to help close it. It describes the legal and judicial trends in the evolution of corporate responsibility for complicity, identifying points at which financial complicity could have been addressed as a…
Corporate Complicity and Finance as a 'Killing Agent
The legal basis for corporate accountability for violations of human rights has evolved robustly over the past decades. Yet, accountability for financial complicity has significantly lagged behind. This article attempts to address this gap in order to help close it. It describes the legal and judicial trends in the evolution of corporate responsibility for complicity, identifying points at which financial complicity could have been addressed as a…
Global land and water grabbing
Societal pressure on the global land and freshwater resources is increasing as a result of the rising food demand by the growing human population, dietary changes, and the enhancement of biofuel production induced by the rising oil prices and recent changes in United States and European Union bioethanol policies. Many countries and corporations have started to acquire relatively inexpensive and productive agricultural land located in foreign coun…
Reply to ‘The politics of evidence
We are glad to see that Scoones et al. (2013b) have finally stated the reasons for their criticism. Their comments on data reliability are very well taken as we acknowledged in our comment (Rulli a
The science of evidence
Food appropriation through large scale land acquisitions
The increasing demand for agricultural products and the uncertainty of international food markets has recently drawn the attention of governments and agribusiness firms toward investments in productive agricultural land, mostly in the developing world. The targeted countries are typically located in regions that have remained only marginally utilized because of lack of modern technology. It is expected that in the long run large scale land acquis…
Land grabbing
Global demands on agricultural land are increasing due to population growth, dietary changes and the use of biofuels. Their effect on food security is to reduce humans' ability to cope with the uncertainties of global climate change. In light of the 2008 food crisis, to secure reliable future access to sufficient agricultural land, many nations and corporations have begun purchasing large tracts of land in the global South, a phenomenon deemed "l…
Accelerated deforestation driven by large-scale land acquisitions in Cambodia
Global investments in agricultural land and the role of the EU
Reserves and trade jointly determine exposure to food supply shocks
While a growing proportion of global food consumption is obtained through international trade, there is an ongoing debate on whether this increased reliance on trade benefits or hinders food security, and specifically, the ability of global food systems to absorb shocks due to local or regional losses of production. This paper introduces a model that simulates the short-term response to a food supply shock originating in a single country, which i…
Past and present biophysical redundancy of countries as a buffer to changes in food supply
Spatially diverse trends in population growth, climate change, industrialization, urbanization and \neconomic development are expected to change future food supply and demand. These changes may \naffect the suitability of land for food production, implying elevated risks especially for resourceconstrained, \nfood-importing countries. We present the evolution of biophysical redundancy for \nagricultural production at country level, from 1992 to 20…
The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons
Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous systems of common property. In recent years, large-scale land acquisitions have drastically expanded; it is unclear whether the commons are a preferential target of these acquisitions. Here we argue that the contemporary global “land rush” could be happening at the expense …
Resilience in the global food system
Ensuring food security requires food production and distribution systems function throughout disruptions. Understanding the factors that contribute to the global food system's ability to respond and adapt to such disruptions (i.e. resilience) is critical for understanding the long-term sustainability of human populations. Variable impacts of production shocks on food supply between countries indicate a need for national-scale resilience indicator…
Threats to sustainable development posed by land and water grabbing
Since small-scale farmers manage most of the cultivated land worldwide, the ongoing shift in systems of production associated with large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) may dramatically reshape the world's agrarian landscape, significantly impacting rural populations and their livelihoods. The societal, hydrological and environmental implications resulting from the expansion of large-scale agricultural production, through LSLAs, make their ultima…
The Global Water Grabbing Syndrome
Human food vs. animal feed debate. A thorough analysis of environmental footprints
The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus
Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an important role in the production of energy, including renewable energy sources and the extraction of unconventional fossil fuels that are expected to become important players in future energy security. The emergent competition for water between the food and energy sys…
Closing the yield gap while ensuring water sustainability
Water is a major factor limiting crop production in many regions around the world. Irrigation can greatly enhance crop yields, but the local availability and timing of freshwater resources constrains the ability of humanity to increase food production. Innovations in irrigation infrastructure have allowed humanity to utilize previously inaccessible water resources, enhancing water withdrawals for agriculture while increasing pressure on environme…
Global unsustainable virtual water flows in agricultural trade
Recent studies have highlighted the reliance of global food production on unsustainable irrigation practices, which deplete freshwater stocks and environmental flows, and consequently impair aquatic ecosystems. Unsustainable irrigation is driven by domestic and international demand for agricultural products. Research on the environmental consequences of trade has often concentrated on the global displacement of pollution and land use, while the e…
Hydrological consequences of natural rubber plantations in Southeast Asia
Since the turn of the century, rubber plantations have been expanding their footprint across Southeast Asia in response to an increasing global demand for rubber products. Between 2000 and 2014, the area cultivated with rubber more than doubled. It is not clear how this major change in the agricultural landscape of Southeast Asia, the main area of rubber production in the world, is affecting land‐use patterns and water resources in the region. He…
Large‐scale land acquisition as a potential driver of slope instability
Recently, vast tracts of land have been acquired by foreign and domestic–foreign partnerships to satisfy an increasing demand for agricultural products, often resulting in the conversion of forested landscapes into agricultural fields. Those conversions often occur in areas characterized by high slope angles with the potential to cause mass wasting and shallow landslides. An interesting case‐study is the Licungo basin in Mozambique, where from 20…
A growing produce bubble
Global analyses have revealed virtual drains and gains of water between trading countries, with Mexico ranking as one of the countries with the fastest increase in unsustainable water consumption in agriculture for export markets, since 2000. It is unclear, however, how Mexico has reshaped its crop production and associated reliance on freshwater resources to satisfy growing domestic and international markets, especially the United States (US). W…
Global assessment of land and water resource demand for pork supply
Growing population and rising incomes are leading to an ever-increasing demand for animal-based foods. Pigmeat is currently the most consumed meat globally, even exceeding the consumption of poultry meat. Despite the disproportionate environmental burden of animal production—mostly attributable to associated feed demand, up-to-date country-scale quantifications of the land and water impacts of the concentrate feed (mainly cereals and soybean) and…
Socio-hydrological features of armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin
Transnational agricultural land acquisitions threaten biodiversity in the Global South
Agricultural large-scale land acquisitions have been linked with enhanced deforestation and land use change. Yet the extent to which transnational agricultural large-scale land acquisitions (TALSLAs) contribute to—or merely correlate with—deforestation, and the expected biodiversity impacts of the intended land use changes across ecosystems, remains unclear. We examine 178 georeferenced TALSLA locations in 40 countries to address this gap. While …
Meeting the EAT-Lancet ‘healthy’ diet target while protecting land and water resources
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