E. S. Cassidy

TL;DR: It is shown that tremendous progress could be made by halting agricultural expansion, closing ‘yield gaps’ on underperforming lands, increasing cropping efficiency, shifting diets and reducing waste, which could double food production while greatly reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.

TL;DR: It is found that a relatively small set of places and actions could provide enough new calories to meet the basic needs for more than 3 billion people, address many environmental impacts with global consequences, and focus food waste reduction on the commodities with the greatest impact on food security.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine agricultural productivity and find that growing food exclusively for direct human consumption could increase available food calories by as much as 70% which could feed an additional 4 billion people (more than the projected 2.3 billion people arriving through population growth).

TL;DR: For example, this article found that traded animal products have a disproportionate influence according to value-based and embodied pasture metrics, and traded wheat, soybean, and maize contain the most calories, use the most cropland, and strongly influence irrigation water consumption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a global, spatially explicit, systems modeling approach to explore the possibility of meeting the demands of increased populations and economic growth in 2050 while simultaneously advancing multiple conservation goals.