[HTML][HTML] Novel approaches and practices to sustainable agriculture

SH Muhie - Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The world population is increasing in a disquieting rate while the quantity of food to gratify
this snowballing human population is an annoyance to agrarian scientists and policymakers …

Fate of nitrogen in agriculture and environment: agronomic, eco-physiological and molecular approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency

M Anas, F Liao, KK Verma, MA Sarwar, A Mahmood… - Biological research, 2020 - Springer
Nitrogen is the main limiting nutrient after carbon, hydrogen and oxygen for photosynthetic
process, phyto-hormonal, proteomic changes and growth-development of plants to complete …

Global mean nitrogen recovery efficiency in croplands can be enhanced by optimal nutrient, crop and soil management practices

L You, GH Ros, Y Chen, Q Shao, MD Young… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
An increase in nitrogen (N) recovery efficiency, also denoted as N use efficiency (NUEr), is
crucial to reconcile food production and environmental health. This study assessed the …

China can be self-sufficient in maize production by 2030 with optimal crop management

N Luo, Q Meng, P Feng, Z Qu, Y Yu, DL Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Population growth and economic development in China has increased the demand for food
and animal feed, raising questions regarding China's future maize production self …

Pursuing sustainable productivity with millions of smallholder farmers

Z Cui, H Zhang, X Chen, C Zhang, W Ma, C Huang… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Sustainably feeding a growing population is a grand challenge,,, and one that is particularly
difficult in regions that are dominated by smallholder farming. Despite local successes …

Soil and human health: current status and future needs

EC Brevik, L Slaughter, BR Singh… - Air, Soil and Water …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Soil influences human health in a variety of ways, with human health being linked to the
health of the soil. Historically, emphasis has been placed on the negative impacts that soils …

Air quality, nitrogen use efficiency and food security in China are improved by cost-effective agricultural nitrogen management

Y Guo, Y Chen, TD Searchinger, M Zhou, D Pan… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
China's gains in food production over the past four decades have been associated with
substantial agricultural nitrogen losses, which contribute to air and water pollution …

Redesigning a food supply chain for environmental sustainability–An analysis of resource use and recovery

R Krishnan, R Agarwal, C Bajada… - Journal of cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Food supply will need to increase by around 70% from its current levels in order to meet the
world population growth of 9.6 billion by 2050. Food waste is the biggest challenge in global …

Optimization of China's maize and soy production can ensure feed sufficiency at lower nitrogen and carbon footprints

Z Liu, H Ying, M Chen, J Bai, Y Xue, Y Yin… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
China purchases around 66% of the soy that is traded internationally. This strains the global
food supply and contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Here we show that optimizing the …

Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health

D Tilman, M Clark - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Diets link environmental and human health. Rising incomes and urbanization are driving a
global dietary transition in which traditional diets are replaced by diets higher in refined …