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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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Policy distortions, farm size, and the overuse of agricultural chemicals in China.
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Achieving sustainable performance in a data-driven agriculture supply chain: A review for research and applications
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The Global Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Paolo D'Odorico,Kyle Frankel Davis,Lorenzo Rosa,Joel A. Carr,Davide Danilo Chiarelli,Jampel Dell'Angelo,Jessica A. Gephart,Graham K. MacDonald,David A. Seekell,Samir Suweis,Maria Cristina Rulli +10 more
TL;DR: This review explores multiple components of the food‐energy‐water nexus and highlights possible approaches that could be used to meet food and energy security with the limited renewable water resources of the planet.
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Multimodel ensembles of wheat growth: many models are better than one
Pierre Martre,Pierre Martre,Daniel Wallach,Senthold Asseng,Frank Ewert,James W. Jones,Reimund P. Rötter,Kenneth J. Boote,Alex C. Ruane,Peter J. Thorburn,Davide Cammarano,Jerry L. Hatfield,Cynthia Rosenzweig,Pramod K. Aggarwal,Carlos Angulo,Bruno Basso,Patrick Bertuzzi,Christian Biernath,Nadine Brisson,Nadine Brisson,Andrew J. Challinor,Andrew J. Challinor,Jordi Doltra,Sebastian Gayler,R. Goldberg,Robert F. Grant,Lee Heng,J. Hooker,L. A. Hunt,Joachim Ingwersen,Roberto C. Izaurralde,Kurt Christian Kersebaum,Christoph Müller,Soora Naresh Kumar,Claas Nendel,Garry O'Leary,Jørgen E. Olesen,Tom M. Osborne,Taru Palosuo,Eckart Priesack,Dominique Ripoche,Mikhail A. Semenov,Iurii Shcherbak,Pasquale Steduto,Claudio O. Stöckle,Pierre Stratonovitch,Thilo Streck,Iwan Supit,Fulu Tao,Maria I. Travasso,Katharina Waha,Jeffrey W. White,Joost Wolf +52 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that multimodel ensembles can be used to create new estimators with improved accuracy and consistency in simulating growth dynamics, and argued that these results are applicable to other crop species, and hypothesize that they apply more generally to ecological system models.
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The roots of a new green revolution.
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