A planetary boundary for green water

L Wang-Erlandsson, A Tobian, RJ Van der Ent… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

SR McGreevy, CDD Rupprecht, D Niles, A Wiek… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sustainable agrifood systems are critical to averting climate-driven social and ecological
disasters, overcoming the growth paradigm and redefining the interactions of humanity and …

[HTML][HTML] Blockchain as a sustainability-oriented innovation?: Opportunities for and resistance to Blockchain technology as a driver of sustainability in global food …

N Friedman, J Ormiston - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Blockchain technology has been forwarded as an innovation to address pressing
sustainability challenges in global food supply chains. However, limited studies have …

Agroecology for a sustainable agriculture and food system: from local solutions to large-scale adoption

F Ewert, R Baatz, R Finger - Annual Review of Resource …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Agroecology is often considered as the ultimate and most comprehensive solution to the
many challenges of the agricultural and food system, also referred to as the agri-food …

Climate change and the urgency to transform food systems

M Zurek, A Hebinck, O Selomane - Science, 2022 - science.org
Without rapid changes to agriculture and food systems, the goals of the 2015 Paris
Agreement on climate change will not be met. Food systems are one of the most important …

Agricultural diversification promotes multiple ecosystem services without compromising yield

G Tamburini, R Bommarco, TC Wanger, C Kremen… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Enhancing biodiversity in crop** systems is suggested to promote ecosystem services,
thereby reducing dependency on agronomic inputs while maintaining high crop yields. We …

Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture

Y Yang, D Tilman, Z **, P Smith, CB Barrett, YG Zhu… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Agriculture's global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding,
driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights …

Irrigation in the Earth system

S McDermid, M Nocco, P Lawston-Parker… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Irrigation accounts for~ 70% of global freshwater withdrawals and~ 90% of consumptive
water use, driving myriad Earth system impacts. In this Review, we summarize how irrigation …

High energy and fertilizer prices are more damaging than food export curtailment from Ukraine and Russia for food prices, health and the environment

P Alexander, A Arneth, R Henry, J Maire, S Rabin… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Higher food prices arising from restrictions on exports from Russia or Ukraine have been
exacerbated by energy price rises, leading to higher costs for agricultural inputs such as …

Positive but variable effects of crop diversification on biodiversity and ecosystem services

D Beillouin, T Ben‐Ari, E Malézieux… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological theory suggests that biodiversity has a positive and stabilizing effect on the
delivery of ecosystem services. Yet, the impacts of increasing the diversity of cultivated crop …