Meat consumption and sustainability

MC Parlasca, M Qaim - Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Meat has become a controversial topic in public debates, as it involves multiple
sustainability dimensions. Here, we review global meat consumption trends and the various …

[HTML][HTML] The challenge of feeding the world

D Fróna, J Szenderák, M Harangi-Rákos - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
The aim of the present research is to provide a comprehensive review about the current
challenges related to food security and hidden hunger. Issues are presented according to …

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 …

Exploring global changes in agricultural ammonia emissions and their contribution to nitrogen deposition since 1980

L Liu, W Xu, X Lu, B Zhong, Y Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Global gains in food production over the past decades have been associated with
substantial agricultural nitrogen overuse and ammonia emissions, which have caused …

The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops

S Savary, L Willocquet, SJ Pethybridge… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Crop pathogens and pests reduce the yield and quality of agricultural production. They
cause substantial economic losses and reduce food security at household, national and …

Quantification of global and national nitrogen budgets for crop production

X Zhang, T Zou, L Lassaletta, ND Mueller, FN Tubiello… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Input–output estimates of nitrogen on cropland are essential for improving nitrogen
management and better understanding the global nitrogen cycle. Here, we compare 13 …

Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

D Gerten, V Heck, J Jägermeyr, BL Bodirsky… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Global agriculture puts heavy pressure on planetary boundaries, posing the challenge to
achieve future food security without compromising Earth system resilience. On the basis of …

[HTML][HTML] Food environment typology: advancing an expanded definition, framework, and methodological approach for improved characterization of wild, cultivated, and …

SM Downs, S Ahmed, J Fanzo, A Herforth - Foods, 2020 - mdpi.com
The food environment is a critical place in the food system to implement interventions to
support sustainable diets and address the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and …

[HTML][HTML] Nutritional and environmental losses embedded in global food waste

C Chen, A Chaudhary, A Mathys - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2020 - Elsevier
Reducing food waste can contribute positively towards multiple sustainable development
goals (SDGs) but the differences in the food waste across countries in terms of embedded …

[HTML][HTML] Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity

J Millard, CL Outhwaite, R Kinnersley… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Pollinating species are in decline globally, with land use an important driver. However, most
of the evidence on which these claims are made is patchy, based on studies with low …