[HTML][HTML] Agricultural land systems importance for supporting food security and sustainable development goals: A systematic review

CM Viana, D Freire, P Abrantes, J Rocha… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Agriculture provides the largest share of food supplies and ensures a critical number of
ecosystem services (eg, food provisioning). Therefore, agriculture is vital for food security …

Climate change and the urgency to transform food systems

M Zurek, A Hebinck, O Selomane - Science, 2022 - science.org
Without rapid changes to agriculture and food systems, the goals of the 2015 Paris
Agreement on climate change will not be met. Food systems are one of the most important …

Global food-miles account for nearly 20% of total food-systems emissions

M Li, N Jia, M Lenzen, A Malik, L Wei, Y Jin… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Food trade plays a key role in achieving global food security. With a growing consumer
demand for diverse food products, transportation has emerged as a key link in food supply …

Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods

X Xu, P Sharma, S Shu, TS Lin, P Ciais, FN Tubiello… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Agriculture and land use are major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but
previous estimates were either highly aggregate or provided spatial details for subsectors …

Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions

M Crippa, E Solazzo, D Guizzardi, F Monforti-Ferrario… - Nature food, 2021 - nature.com
We have developed a new global food emissions database (EDGAR-FOOD) estimating
greenhouse gas (GHG; CO 2, CH 4, N 2 O, fluorinated gases) emissions for the years 1990 …

[HTML][HTML] Greenhouse gas emissions from global production and use of nitrogen synthetic fertilisers in agriculture

S Menegat, A Ledo, R Tirado - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The global agri-food system relies on synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilisation to increase crop
yields, yet the use of synthetic N fertiliser is unsustainable. In this study we estimate global …

Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5 and 2 C climate change targets

MA Clark, NGG Domingo, K Colgan, SK Thakrar… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The Paris Agreement's goal of limiting the increase in global temperature to 1.5° or 2° C
above preindustrial levels requires rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Although …

[HTML][HTML] Rigorous monitoring is necessary to guide food system transformation in the countdown to the 2030 global goals

J Fanzo, L Haddad, KR Schneider, C Béné, NM Covic… - Food Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Food systems that support healthy diets in sustainable, resilient, just, and equitable ways
can engender progress in eradicating poverty and malnutrition; protecting human rights; and …

Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems: building the evidence base

FN Tubiello, C Rosenzweig… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
New estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the food system were developed at
the country level, for the period 1990–2018, integrating data from crop and livestock …

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 …