Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks

L Rosa - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Irrigated agriculture accounts for∼ 90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is
deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding …

Achieving net-zero emissions in agriculture: a review

L Rosa, P Gabrielli - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Agriculture accounts for 12% of global annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (7.1 Gt
CO2 equivalent), primarily through non-CO2 emissions, namely methane (54%), nitrous …

Safe and just Earth system boundaries

J Rockström, J Gupta, D Qin, SJ Lade, JF Abrams… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably
linked,–, yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they …

Global trends of cropland phosphorus use and sustainability challenges

T Zou, X Zhang, EA Davidson - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
To meet the growing food demand while addressing the multiple challenges of exacerbating
phosphorus (P) pollution and depleting P rock reserves,,,,,,,,,,,,,–, P use efficiency (PUE, the …

Ageing threatens sustainability of smallholder farming in China

C Ren, X Zhou, C Wang, Y Guo, Y Diao, S Shen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Rapid demographic ageing substantially affects socioeconomic development,,–and
presents considerable challenges for food security and agricultural sustainability,,–, which …

Ammonia mitigation campaign with smallholder farmers improves air quality while ensuring high cereal production

J Kang, J Wang, MR Heal, K Goulding, W de Vries… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Reducing cropland ammonia (NH3) emissions while improving air quality and food supply is
a challenge, particularly in China where there are millions of smallholder farmers. We tested …

A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations

J Gupta, X Bai, DM Liverman, J Rockström… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The health of the planet and its people are at risk. The deterioration of
the global commons—ie, the natural systems that support life on Earth—is exacerbating …

Environmental sustainability and footprints of global aquaculture

Q Jiang, N Bhattarai, M Pahlow, Z Xu - Resources, Conservation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
While aquaculture is critical to global food and nutrition security, the fast development of
aquaculture production systems has recently increased concerns about resource …

Energy and food security implications of transitioning synthetic nitrogen fertilizers to net-zero emissions

L Rosa, P Gabrielli - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
By synthetically producing nitrogen fertilizers from ammonia (NH 3), the Haber–Bosch
process has been feeding humanity for more than one hundred years. However, current NH …

A systematic review of agricultural sustainability indicators

A Bathaei, D Štreimikienė - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
A rapidly expanding field, sustainable agriculture aims to produce food and energy for
people today and future generations. The sustainability concept is different in every field; …