News & Views: Cropland fragmentation poses a significant threat to agricultural sustainability in China. Rational crop layout is required for different ecological regions to manage the fragmented croplands.
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News & Views: reallocating a third of food-grade forage fish towards direct human consumption can optimize seafood systems to deliver dietary nutrients for feed and food at different scales.
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Article: A mass-balance fish-in/fish-out ratio approach demonstrates that redistributing wild-caught fish used in salmon aquaculture to human consumption could improve nutrient retention and support sustainable marine resource use.
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Article: land use spatial statistics shows that optimizing cropping structures to meet animal food demand or relocating fragmented croplands for large-scale farming can increase agricultural productivity and environmental protection.
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Article: organic nitrogen (N) management is critical to high rice yields and carbon (C) neutrality. Scaled-up field findings using machine learning show co-benefits for yields and emissions achieved through integrated management of organic N and water.
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Brief Communication: Temperature increases of 1 °C and 3 °C arising from climate change will likely increase risks for tropical sheep production with negative impacts on ewe fertility, milk production and lamb survival rates.
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Research: agricultural trade-off analyses differ widely in design and application. A systematic review compares them in terms of methods, spatial scale, farming system, and indicators.
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Correspondence: Investments are needed to adapt African agriculture to climate change. In 2020, US$2.8 billion were committed to it, a figure which is likely to rise.
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Article: High-income groups contribute significantly to air pollution through their food choices, but most of the associated health burden is borne by low-income groups living close to agricultural areas.
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Correspondence: 'Hunger, debt and interest rates'
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Research Briefing: scaled-up field research findings shows co-benefits of improved rice yield and reduced carbon emissions through integrated management of organic residues and water.
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News & Views: the affordability of healthy diets remains a pressing concern in sub-Saharan Africa. Recent research examines how food prices and income influence dietary quality, providing a roadmap for targeted food and nutrition policy interventions.
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Comment: a new platform brings together food biomolecular composition data from 1,650 foods.
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Editorial: Every study has limitations, the question is weather it moves the field forward and what this entails for each research community.
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March issue: debt and hunger, decision support systems, improved rice cultivation, trade-offs in agriculture, food-related health burden, climate and sheep production, fragmented cropland in China… and more!
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Article: Consumer demand system modelling shows how sensitive diet quality is to changes in income and food prices in Malawi, Niger, Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria.
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Article: Meeting air quality targets in China would help the country to achieve grain self-sufficiency. This study shows synergistic effects arising from reductions in #ozone and #aerosols on China’s maize, rice and wheat yields.
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Article: Canada’s Food Guide recommends greater consumption of plant protein. Based on actual food intake values, this study assesses the impacts of partial replacement (25% and 50%) on nutrient inadequacy, health outcomes and GHG emissions.
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