Nutrient recovery technologies are rapidly expanding due to the need for the appropriate
recycling of key elements from waste resources in order to move towards a truly sustainable …

Global food security is a priority for the future development agenda of the United Nations.
Given the high dependence of the modern global food production system on the continuous …

We explore the role of agriculture in destabilizing the Earth system at the planetary scale,
through examining nine planetary boundaries, or “safe limits”: land-system change …

Phosphorus security is emerging as one of the twenty-first century's greatest global
sustainability challenges. Phosphorus has no substitute in food production, and the use of …

Society relies heavily on inorganic phosphorus (P) compounds throughout its food chain.
This dependency is not only very inefficient and increasingly costly but is depleting finite …

Phosphorus (P) is an essential resource for food production and chemical industry.
Phosphorus use has to become more sustainable and should include phosphorus recycling …

Urine is a valuable “waste” stream that could potentially be used to off-set the need to mine
and produce synthetic fertilizers. There is an urgent need for new sources of key nutrients …

The relationship between root morphological and physiological responses to variable P
supply in different plant species is poorly understood. We compared root morphological and …

There has been much soil phosphorus (P) research in the last decades, but few basic
publications exist summarizing the current state of knowledge on ecologically relevant P …

Increasing crop productivity per unit of land area to meet future food and fiber demand
increases both soil nutrient removal and the importance of replenishing soil fertility through …