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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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Ecosystem health towards sustainability
Yonglong Lu,Ruoshi Wang,Yueqing Zhang,Hongqiao Su,Pei Wang,Alan Jenkins,Robert C. Ferrier,Mark J. Bailey,Geoff R. Squire +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the main principles and criteria for indicator selection, classification of indicators for different kinds of ecosystems, the most appropriate indicators for measuring ecosystem sustainability, and various methods and models for the assessment of ecosystem health are presented.
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Enset in Ethiopia: a poorly characterized but resilient starch staple.
James S. Borrell,Manosh Kumar Biswas,Mark B. Goodwin,Guy Blomme,Trude Schwarzacher,Heslop-Harrison Jsp,Wendawek Am,Berhanu A,Simon Kallow,Steven Janssens,Molla El,Aaron P. Davis,Feleke Woldeyes,Katherine J. Willis,Katherine J. Willis,Sebsebe Demissew,Sebsebe Demissew,Paul Wilkin +17 more
TL;DR: The current state of the art in enset research is reviewed and critically evaluated, available genomic and germplasm resources are outlined, aspects of pathology are explored, and avenues for crop development are explored.
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Leaf photosynthesis and associations with grain yield, biomass and nitrogen-use efficiency in landraces, synthetic-derived lines and cultivars in wheat
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TL;DR: The results indicated that introgressing traits from synthetic-derived wheat and landraces into UK modern wheat germplasm offers scope to raise above-ground biomass and grain yield in moderate-to-low N availability environments.
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Embodied greenhouse gas emissions in diets.
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Decoupling Livestock from Land Use through Industrial Feed Production Pathways.
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TL;DR: This analysis reveals that by 2050, MP can replace, depending on socio-economic development and MP production pathways, between 10-19% of conventional crop-based animal feed protein demand, which could cause a major structural change in the agro-food system.
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Forecasting agriculturally driven global environmental change
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