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Table 3

European soybean yield on “cropland surplus” required to suppress Europe’s imports of soybean cakes and imports of total cakes in 2050 in the Trend-based Diets scenario.

	Cropland surplus 2050 (^*)	Soybean yield	Additional potential production of soybean 2050 (^**)	Additional potential production of soybean cakes 2050 (^**)	Additional potential production of soybean cakes 2050 (^**)	European imports of soybean cakes 2050	Total European imports of protein cakes 2050

	1000 ha	t.ha⁻¹	1000 tons	1000 tons	1000 tpe (^***)	1000 tpe (^***)	1000 tpe (^***)
Soybean yield in “2010” (average of soybean yields in regions with surplus cropland)	3488	2.3	7892	5653	2572	13 391	14 934

Soybean yield required to suppress European soybean cake imports in 2050	3488	11.8	41 086	29 431	13 391	0	1543

Soybean yield required to suppress all European imports of protein cakes in 2050	3488	13.1	45 820	32 821	14 934	0	0

“Cropland surplus” in the Trend-based Diets scenario.

^**

The additional potential production of soybeans and soybean cakes adds to the projected production of soybeans and soybean cakes in the Trend-based Diets scenario in 2050. The latter production is already accounted for in the scenario’s projected imports.

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tpe = tons of protein equivalent.

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