A vast range of opportunities for feeding the world in 2050: trade-off between diet, N contamination and international trade

A vast range of opportunities for feeding the world in 2050: trade-off between diet, N contamination and international trade

Through a detailed analysis of the FAO database, we have constructed a generalized representation of the nitrogen transfers characterizing the current agro-food system (GRAFS) of 12 macro-regions of the world in terms of functional relationships between crop farming, livestock breeding and human nut...

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Main Authors: Gilles Billen, Luis Lassaletta, Josette Garnier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
food security
agro-food systems
nitrogen contamination
human diet
trade
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/025001

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