The story of phosphorus: Global food security and food for thought
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...Calculations based on Smil (2000a, 2002) suggest the total phosphorus content in annual global agricultural harvests is approximately 12 MT P, of which 7 MT P is processed for feed and food and fibre, while 40% of the remaining 5 MT P of crop residues is returned to the land.5 Studies on…...
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...To keep up with increased food demand due to rapid population growth in the 20th century, guano and later rock phosphate were applied extensively to food crops (Brink, 1977; Smil, 2000b)....
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...Existing rock phosphate reserves could be exhausted in the next 50–100 years (Steen, 1998; Smil, 2000b; Gunther, 2005)....
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...The fertilizer industry recognises that the quality of reserves is declining and the cost of extraction, processing and shipping is increasing (Runge-Metzger, 1995; Driver, 1998; Smil, 2000b; EcoSanRes, 2003)....
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...The mining of guano (bird droppings deposited over previous millennia) and phosphate-rich rock had begun (Brink, 1977; Smil, 2000b)....
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