Understanding individual food choices is critical for transforming the current food system to
ensure healthiness of people and sustainability of the planet. Throughout the years …

Soils are the most complex and diverse ecosystem in the world. In addition to providing
humanity with 98.8% of its food, soils provide a broad range of other services, from carbon …

Feeding humanity puts enormous environmental pressure on our planet. These pressures
are unequally distributed, yet we have piecemeal knowledge of how they accumulate across …

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 …

Historically, human uses of land have transformed and fragmented ecosystems,, degraded
biodiversity,, disrupted carbon and nitrogen cycles, and added prodigious quantities of …

Executive Summary The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use1 (AFOLU) sector
encompasses managed ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while …

Ecosystems provide multiple services to humans. However, agricultural systems are usually
evaluated on their productivity and economic performance, and a systematic and …

Plant-based diets, defined here as including both vegan and lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets, are
growing in popularity throughout the Western world for various reasons, including concerns …

Feeding the world depends on protecting our valuable ecosystems and biodiversity.
Currently, increasing public awareness of the problems posed by the current industrialized …

Small farms constitute most of the world's farms and are a central focus of sustainable
agricultural development. However, the relationship between farm size and production …