Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

Rapidly increasing international food trade has drastically altered the global food system
over the past decades. Using national scale indicators, we assess two of the resilience …

Spatiotemporally consistent data on global cropland extent is essential for tracking progress
towards sustainable food production. In the present study, we present an analysis of global …

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 …

Water scarcity, a critical environmental issue worldwide, has primarily been driven by a
significant increase in water extractions during the last century. In the coming decades …

The distance between the origin and end-point of food supply chains, and the 'localness' of
food systems, are key considerations of many narratives associated with sustainability. Yet …

Safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue
water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the Anthropocene. Here we …

Global land systems are increasingly shaped by international trade of agricultural products.
An increasing number of studies have quantified the implications of agricultural trade for …

The increasing global demand for farmland products is placing unprecedented pressure on
the global agricultural system and its water resources. Many regions of the world, that are …

Food production on our planet is dominantly based on agricultural practices developed
during stable Holocene climatic conditions. Although it is widely accepted that climate …