Table 2 Irrigation constraint and shares of forest and pasture in land use changes due to US ethanol production
From: The role of irrigation in determining the global land use impacts of biofuels
Regions | Unconstrained experiment | No-irrigation experiment | Constrained experiment | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Forest (%) | Pasture (%) | Forest (%) | Pasture (%) | Forest (%) | Pasture (%) |
USA | 51.0 | 49.0 | 39.5 | 60.5 | 51.1 | 48.9 |
EU27 | 64.4 | 35.6 | 65.0 | 35.0 | 64.3 | 35.7 |
Brazil | 27.5 | 72.5 | 24.9 | 75.1 | 19.8 | 80.2 |
Other regions | 6.0 | 94.0 | 6.4 | 93.6 | 9.8 | 90.2 |
World | 28.9 | 71.1 | 24.1 | 75.9 | 31.5 | 68.5 |