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Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
H Charles J Godfray,John Beddington,I. R. Crute,Lawrence Haddad,David Lawrence,James F. Muir,Jules Pretty,Sherman Robinson,Sandy M Thomas,Camilla Toulmin +9 more
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A multifaceted and linked global strategy is needed to ensure sustainable and equitable food security, different components of which are explored here.Abstract:
Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, in addition to the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requirement to reduce the impact of the food system on the environment. The effects of climate change are a further threat. But the world can produce more food and can ensure that it is used more efficiently and equitably. A multifaceted and linked global strategy is needed to ensure sustainable and equitable food security, different components of which are explored here.read more
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Applying Value Stream Mapping to reduce food losses and wastes in supply chains: A systematic review
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Elevating crop disease resistance with cloned genes
Jonathan D. G. Jones,Kamil Witek,Walter Verweij,Florian Jupe,David E. L. Cooke,Stephen Dorling,Laurence Tomlinson,Matthew Smoker,Sara Perkins,S. J. Foster +9 more
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When too much isn’t enough: Does current food production meet global nutritional needs?
Krishna Bahadur Kc,Goretty Dias,Anastasia Veeramani,Clarence J. Swanton,David Fraser,Dirk Steinke,Elizabeth A. Lee,Hannah Wittman,Jeffrey M. Farber,Kari E. Dunfield,Kevin S. McCann,Madhur Anand,Malcolm M. Campbell,Neil Rooney,Nigel E. Raine,Rene C. Van Acker,Robert Hanner,Samantha Pascoal,Shayan Sharif,Tim G. Benton,Evan D. G. Fraser +20 more
TL;DR: For a growing population, the only way to eat a nutritionally balanced diet, save land and reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to consume and produce more fruits and vegetables as well as transition to diets higher in plant-based protein.
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Duplicate and conquer: multiple homologs of PHOSPHORUS-STARVATION TOLERANCE1 enhance phosphorus acquisition and sorghum performance on low-phosphorus soils.
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The long-term role of organic amendments in building soil nutrient fertility: a meta-analysis and review
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TL;DR: In this article, an exhaustive meta-analysis of 132 long-term (≥ 10 years) studies worldwide was carried out to determine the effects of the use of organic amendments (OA) and OA+inorganic fertiliser (IF) on soil nutrient fertility.
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Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt
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Forecasting agriculturally driven global environmental change
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