Extended Data Fig. 1: Global variation across and within commodities in the expected extinction opportunity cost of annually producing one functional unit of agricultural commodity or commodity group. | Nature Food

Extended Data Fig. 1: Global variation across and within commodities in the expected extinction opportunity cost of annually producing one functional unit of agricultural commodity or commodity group.

From: Food impacts on species extinction risks can vary by three orders of magnitude

Extended Data Fig. 1

Foods are grouped into functional units: in the case of protein sources this is 100 g of protein; for carbohydrate staples, 1000 kcal; and for fruits and vegetables, 100 grams. For stimulants, the serving sizes are 50 g, 15 g, 3 g, and 1 teaspoon for cocoa, coffee, tea and maté, and spices respectively. In the case of oilcrops, sugar cane, and sugar beet, the functional unit is one kilogram of product, which takes into account the derived nature of these products (i.e. processed sugar rather than raw sugar cane). The lower and upper boundaries of the boxes represent the production-mass weighted 10th and 90th percentiles respectively. Horizontal lines represent the weighted median (50th percentile). Where commodities are grouped, the extinction opportunity cost values of each constituent commodity are weighted by their contribution (by mass) to the total global production of that group.

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