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 …

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 …

Large-scale hydrogen production via water electrolysis: a techno-economic and environmental assessment

T Terlouw, C Bauer, R McKenna… - Energy & Environmental …, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Low-carbon (green) hydrogen can be generated via water electrolysis using photovoltaic,
wind, hydropower, or decarbonized grid electricity. This work quantifies current and future …

Global energy use and carbon emissions from irrigated agriculture

J Qin, W Duan, S Zou, Y Chen, W Huang… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Irrigation is a land management practice with major environmental impacts. However, global
energy consumption and carbon emissions resulting from irrigation remain unknown. We …

Global land and water limits to electrolytic hydrogen production using wind and solar resources

D Tonelli, L Rosa, P Gabrielli, K Caldeira… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Proposals for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 include scaling-up electrolytic hydrogen
production, however, this poses technical, economic, and environmental challenges. One …

Half of twenty-first century global irrigation expansion has been in water-stressed regions

P Mehta, S Siebert, M Kummu, Q Deng, T Ali, L Marston… - Nature Water, 2024‏ - nature.com
The expansion of irrigated agriculture has increased global crop production but resulted in
widespread stress on freshwater resources. Ensuring that increases in irrigated production …

[HTML][HTML] Severity of drought and heatwave crop losses tripled over the last five decades in Europe

TA Brás, J Seixas, N Carvalhais… - Environmental …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme weather disasters (EWDs) can jeopardize domestic food supply and disrupt
commodity markets. However, historical impacts on European crop production associated …

Towards food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks

KF Davis, S Downs, JA Gephart - Nature Food, 2021‏ - nature.com
Environmental variability and shock events can be propagated or attenuated along food
supply chains by various economic, political and infrastructural factors. Understanding these …

Global agricultural economic water scarcity

L Rosa, DD Chiarelli, MC Rulli, J Dell'Angelo… - Science …, 2020‏ - science.org
Water scarcity raises major concerns on the sustainable future of humanity and the
conservation of important ecosystem functions. To meet the increasing food demand without …

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; …