Localized nitrogen management strategies can halve fertilizer use in Chinese staple crop production

Y Liu, M Zhuang, X Liang, SK Lam, D Chen, A Malik… - Nature Food, 2024‏ - nature.com
Nitrogen (N) management is the key to achieving food security and environmental
sustainability. Here we analyse N flows using a localized N management model for wheat …

Evaluating the potential and eligibility of conservation agriculture practices for carbon credits

AAG Cariappa, NC Konath, TB Sapkota, VV Krishna - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Carbon credits, a voluntary market mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,
can incentivize climate action. We evaluate the potential and eligibility of Conservation …

Effects of Straw Returning and New Fertilizer Substitution on Rice Growth, Yield, and Soil Properties in the Chaohu Lake Region of China

M Luo, Y Liu, J Li, T Gao, S Wu, L Wu, X Lai, H Xu… - Plants, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Recently, replacing chemical fertilizers with straw returning and new fertilizers has received
considerable attention in the agricultural sector, as it is believed to increase rice yield and …

Optimizing phosphorus fertilizer use to enhance water quality, food security and social equality

Z Bai, L Liu, C Kroeze, M Strokal, X Chen… - Resources …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
There are large regional differences regarding the use of phosphorus (P) fertilizer in global
crop production. Likewise, people's accesses to crop calories and exposure to water …

Multicriteria Suitability Index for Prioritizing Early-Stage Deployments of Wastewater-Derived Fertilizers in Sub-Saharan Africa

CA Wong, DB Lobell, MS Mauter - Environmental Science & …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Recycling nutrients from wastewater could simultaneously decrease the carbon intensity of
traditional ammonia supply chains and increase the accessibility of local fertilizer. Despite …

Low-carbon ammonia production is essential for resilient and sustainable agriculture

S Mingolla, L Rosa - Nature Food, 2025‏ - nature.com
Ammonia-based synthetic nitrogen fertilizers (N fertilizers) are critical for global food
security. However, their production, primarily dependent on fossil fuels, is energy-and …

Integrated irrigation and nitrogen optimization is a resource-efficient adaptation strategy for US maize and soybean production

C Ren, L He, L Rosa - Nature Food, 2025‏ - nature.com
Climate change poses substantial challenges to agriculture and crop production, but the
combined role of nitrogen and water inputs in adaptation has been largely overlooked. Here …

Changing trends in crop management practices and performance attributes of rice-based systems of coastal Bangladesh

MA Islam, S Pariyar, TJ Krupnik, M Becker - Frontiers in Agronomy, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Climate change affects changes in rice-based systems of coastal Bangladesh. Both external
pressures and system-immanent attributes influence farmers' adoption of new production …

Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia

S Coggins, AJ McDonald, JV Silva, A Urfels… - Nature …, 2025‏ - nature.com
Increasing nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in agricultural production mitigates climate change,
limits water pollution and reduces fertilizer subsidy costs. Nevertheless, strategies for …

[HTML][HTML] Fertilizer demand and profitability amid global fuel-food-fertilizer crisis: Evidence from Ethiopia

TW Assefa, G Berhane, GT Abate, KA Abay - Food Policy, 2025‏ - Elsevier
We assess fertilizer demand and profitability in Ethiopia in the face of the recent global fuel–
food–fertilizer price crisis and other domestic shocks. We first examine farmers' response to …