Managing land carrying capacity: Key to achieving sustainable production systems for food security

X Wang - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many previous studies have estimated the carrying capacity and feasible planetary
boundaries for humankind. However, less attention has been given to how we will …

The future of farming: Who will produce our food?

KE Giller, T Delaune, JV Silva, K Descheemaeker… - Food Security, 2021 - Springer
Achieving SDG2 (zero hunger) in a situation of rapid global population growth requires a
continued focus on food production. Farming not merely needs to sustainably produce …

High-resolution crop yield and water productivity dataset generated using random forest and remote sensing

M Cheng, X Jiao, L Shi, J Penuelas, L Kumar, C Nie… - Scientific data, 2022 - nature.com
Accurate and high-resolution crop yield and crop water productivity (CWP) datasets are
required to understand and predict spatiotemporal variation in agricultural production …

Water management dilemma in the agricultural sector of Iran: A review focusing on water governance

M Nouri, M Homaee, LS Pereira, M Bybordi - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Around 90% of fresh renewable water is being used in Iran, indicating high water stress
conditions across the country. Given that agricultural irrigation accounts for the majority of …

[HTML][HTML] The scarcity-weighted water footprint provides unreliable water sustainability scoring

D Vanham, MM Mekonnen - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
To evaluate the environmental sustainability of blue water use or the blue water footprint
(WF) of a product, organisation, geographical entity or a diet, two well-established indicators …

Status of the World's Soils

P Smith, RM Poch, DA Lobb… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Healthy soils contribute to a wide range of ecosystem services and virtually all of the UN
Sustainable Development Goals, but most of the world's soil resources are in only fair, poor …

Quantifying irrigation adaptation strategies in response to stakeholder-driven groundwater management in the US High Plains Aquifer

JM Deines, AD Kendall, JJ Butler… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Irrigation enhances agricultural yields and stabilizes farmer incomes, but overexploitation
has depleted groundwater resources around the globe. Strategies to address this …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways to wheat self-sufficiency in Africa

JV Silva, M Jaleta, K Tesfaye, B Abeyo, M Devkota… - Global Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
A growing urban population and dietary changes increased wheat import bills in Africa to
9% per year. Though wheat production in the continent has been increasing over the past …

How much control do smallholder maize farmers have over yield?

M Cecil, A Chilenga, C Chisanga, N Gatti, N Krell… - Field Crops …, 2023 - Elsevier
Smallholder agriculture is critical for current and future food security, yet quantifying the
sources of smallholder yield variance remains a major challenge. Attributing yield variance …

[HTML][HTML] Rice yield gaps and nitrogen-use efficiency in the Northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains of India: Evidence based insights from heterogeneous farmers' practices

HS Nayak, JV Silva, CM Parihar, SK Kakraliya… - Field Crops …, 2022 - Elsevier
A large database of individual farmer field data (n= 4,107) for rice production in the
Northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains of India was used to decompose rice yield gaps and to …