Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Nature Sustainability, Год журнала: 2019, Номер 2(9), С. 805 - 814

Опубликована: Авг. 26, 2019

Язык: Английский

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A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

Science Advances, Год журнала: 2019, Номер 5(10)

Опубликована: Окт. 11, 2019

Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield-related services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on high richness remains unclear. Using database from 89 studies (with 1475 locations), we partition the relative importance of richness, abundance, dominance for pollination; biological pest control; final yields in context ongoing land-use change. Pollinator enemy directly supported addition independent abundance dominance. Up 50% negative effects landscape simplification was due losses service-providing organisms, with consequences yields. Maintaining service providers is therefore vital sustain flow key agroecosystem benefits society.

Язык: Английский

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Nano-enabled pesticides for sustainable agriculture and global food security

Nature Nanotechnology, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 17(4), С. 347 - 360

Опубликована: Март 24, 2022

Язык: Английский

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Long-Term Evidence Shows that Crop-Rotation Diversification Increases Agricultural Resilience to Adverse Growing Conditions in North America

One Earth, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 2(3), С. 284 - 293

Опубликована: Март 1, 2020

A grand challenge facing humanity is how to produce food for a growing population in the face of changing climate and environmental degradation. Although empirical evidence remains sparse, management strategies that increase sustainability, such as increasing agroecosystem diversity through crop rotations, may also resilience weather extremes without sacrificing yields. We used multilevel regression analyses long-term yield datasets across continental precipitation gradient assess temporal diversification affects maize yields intensively managed grain systems. More diverse rotations increased over time all conditions (28.1% on average), including favorable (22.6%). Notably, more showed positive effects under unfavorable conditions, whereby losses were reduced by 14.0%–89.9% drought years. Systems approaches sustainability resilience, crop-rotation diversification, are central component risk-reduction should inform enablement policies.

Язык: Английский

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A cultivated planet in 2010 – Part 2: The global gridded agricultural-production maps

Earth system science data, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 12(4), С. 3545 - 3572

Опубликована: Дек. 21, 2020

Abstract. Data on global agricultural production are usually available as statistics at administrative units, which does not give any diversity and spatial patterns; thus they less informative for subsequent spatially explicit environmental analyses. In the second part of two-paper series, we introduce SPAM2010 – latest datasets circa 2010 elaborate improvement SPAM (Spatial Production Allocation Model) dataset family since 2000. adds further methodological data enhancements to crop downscaling modeling, mainly include update base year, extension list, expansion subnational administrative-unit coverage. Specifically, it only applies synergy cropland layer (see Lu et al., submitted current journal) other relevant but also expands estimates area, yield, from 20 42 major crops under four farming systems across a 5 arcmin grid. All maps freely MapSPAM website (http://mapspam.info/, last access: 11 December 2020), acts tool validating improving performance by collecting feedback users is platform providing archived agricultural-production better targeting Sustainable Development Goals. particular, can be downloaded via an open-data repository (DOI: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PRFF8V; IFPRI, 2019).

Язык: Английский

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Agroforestry boosts soil health in the humid and sub-humid tropics: A meta-analysis

Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 295, С. 106899 - 106899

Опубликована: Март 12, 2020

Язык: Английский

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Pathways for advancing pesticide policies

Nature Food, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 1(9), С. 535 - 540

Опубликована: Сен. 15, 2020

Язык: Английский

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Agroforestry Systems for Soil Health Improvement and Maintenance

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 14(22), С. 14877 - 14877

Опубликована: Ноя. 10, 2022

Agroforestry integrates woody perennials with arable crops, livestock, or fodder in the same piece of land, promoting more efficient utilization resources as compared to monocropping via structural and functional diversification components. This integration trees provides various soil-related ecological services such fertility enhancements improvements soil physical, biological, chemical properties, along food, wood, fodder. By providing a particular habitat, refugia for epigenic organisms, microclimate heterogeneity, buffering action, moisture, humidity, agroforestry can enhance biodiversity than monocropping. Various studies confirmed internal restoration potential agroforestry. reduces runoff, intercepts rainfall, binds particles together, helping erosion control. trade-off between non-cash crop production is not serious constraint on farmland also other important co-benefits practitioners. Tree-based systems increase livelihoods, yields, resilience agriculture, thereby ensuring nutrition food security. be cost-effective climate-smart farming practice, which will help cope climate-related extremities dryland areas cultivated by smallholders through diversifying improving protecting soil, reducing wind erosion. review highlighted role improvements, amelioration, productivity agroforestry, particularly semi-arid degraded under careful consideration management practices.

Язык: Английский

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A review of the interactions between biodiversity, agriculture, climate change, and international trade: research and policy priorities

One Earth, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 4(1), С. 88 - 101

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2021

Язык: Английский

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Global food self-sufficiency in the 21st century under sustainable intensification of agriculture

Environmental Research Letters, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 15(9), С. 095004 - 095004

Опубликована: Май 15, 2020

Abstract Meeting the increasing global demand for agricultural products without depleting limited resources of planet is a major challenge that humanity facing. Most studies on food security do not make projections past year 2050, just as climate change and are expected to intensify. Moreover, account water sustainability limits irrigation expansion presently rainfed areas. Here we perform an integrated assessment considers range factors affecting future production throughout 21st century. We evaluate self-sufficiency 165 countries under sustainability, middle-of-the-road, business-as-usual scenarios considering changes in diet, population, intensification, climate. find both middle-of-the-road trajectories likely decline despite increased through sustainable intensification since projected exceeds potential production. Contrarily, scenario, estimate there will be enough feed population. However, most Africa Middle East continue heavily reliant imports century all scenarios. These results highlight hotspots crop deficits, reliance imports, vulnerability supply shocks.

Язык: Английский

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