Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(14), P. 6026 - 6026
Published: July 15, 2024
As valuable sources of plant-based protein, leguminous vegetables (grain legumes) are essential for global food security and contribute to body growth development in humans as well animals. Climate change is a major challenge agriculture that creates problems the plants. However, legume productivity threatened by climate factors, including rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, intensified extreme events, altered pest/pathogen activity. This review synthesizes approximately 136 studies assess effects on crops. Under all emissions trajectories, mean temperatures projected rise beyond optimal growing thresholds 2050, carrying yield reductions between 10 49% beans, soybeans, cowpeas, lentils without adaptation measures. The elevated may transiently enhance yields up 18%, but benefits dramatically decline above 550 ppm cannot offset other impacts. Altered rainfall along with recurrent drought heat waves also expected decrease crop yields, seed quality, soil nitrogen levels worldwide. Furthermore, proliferation pests fungal diseases poses significant risks, amplified shifts 84% reviewed studies. These multifaceted impacts threaten gains sustainably meeting protein demand. Realizing resilience will require accelerated heat/drought-tolerant varieties, enhanced climate-informed agronomic practices, strong policy interventions, social safety nets explicitly supporting producers, addition policies/steps governments taking address challenges crisis. highlights adaptations mechanisms required crops thrive fulfill their roles nutrition. It explores how these can be improved better withstand environmental stresses, nutritional profiles, increase yields. Additionally, discusses importance legumes sustainable security, emphasizing potential future feeding population. By focusing critical aspects, aims underscore ensuring healthy supply.
Language: Английский