The future of food

CM Galanakis - Foods, 2024 - mdpi.com
The global food systems face significant challenges driven by population growth, climate
change, geopolitical conflicts, crises, and evolving consumer preferences. Intending to …

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 …

Nutritional attributes, substitutability, scalability, and environmental intensity of an illustrative subset of current and future protein sources for aquaculture feeds: joint …

N Pelletier, DH Klinger, NA Sims… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Aquaculture is anticipated to play an increasingly important role in global food security
because it may represent one of the best opportunities to increase the availability of healthy …

Protecting the Amazon forest and reducing global warming via agricultural intensification

FR Marin, AJ Zanon, JP Monzon, JF Andrade… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Amazon basin includes 550 Mha covered with rainforests, and 60% of this area
is in Brazil. The conversion of rainforest for soybean production raises concerns about how …

Interactions between temperature and drought in global and regional crop yield variability during 1961-2014

M Matiu, DP Ankerst, A Menzel - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Inter-annual crop yield variation is driven in large parts by climate variability, wherein the
climate components of temperature and precipitation often play the biggest role. Nonlinear …

[HTML][HTML] The Evaporative Stress Index as an indicator of agricultural drought in Brazil: An assessment based on crop yield impacts

MC Anderson, CA Zolin, PC Sentelhas, CR Hain… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
To effectively meet growing food demands, the global agronomic community will require a
better understanding of factors that are currently limiting crop yields and where production …

The impact of climate change on Brazil's agriculture

M Zilli, M Scarabello, AC Soterroni, H Valin… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Brazilian agricultural production provides a significant fraction of the food consumed
globally, with the country among the top exporters of soybeans, sugar, and beef. However …

Diversified crop rotations increase the yield and economic efficiency of grain production systems

LG Garbelini, H Debiasi, AAB Junior… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Crop rotations with high plant diversity and biomass input have been recognized worldwide
as a crucial practice for increasing the sustainability of grain production systems, particularly …

Modeling the current land suitability and future dynamics of global soybean cultivation under climate change scenarios

L Feng, H Wang, X Ma, H Peng, J Shan - Field crops research, 2021 - Elsevier
With high economic and nutritional value, soybean is an important crop with increasing
global demand. In order to explore the current global potential cultivation areas of soybean …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the sensitive spectral bands for soybean water status monitoring and soil moisture prediction using leaf-based hyperspectral reflectance

LGT Crusiol, MR Nanni, RH Furlanetto… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
The stability of soybean yields in Brazil is regularly affected by drought periods, and soil
management practices are crucial to expanding the water holding capacity of the soil and …