Pub Date : 2024-06-18DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01002-0
Eva-Marie Meemken, Diane Charlton, Luc Christiaensen, Miet Maertens, Carlos Oya, Thomas Reardon, Henry Stemmler
Working conditions in food systems remain precarious across the globe. Little scientific guidance exists on what works where when it comes to initiatives aimed at addressing this issue. Investments in large-scale, nationally representative agricultural worker data are needed to properly document the scale and nature of working conditions and better guide policy design and implementation.
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Crop pest invasions and their interactions with climate change may have been overlooked in crop yield projections, hindering the development of climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture. A harmonized strategy is proposed to integrate such interactions into crop yield projections and management under climate change scenarios.
{"title":"Integrating climate–pest interactions into crop projections for sustainable agriculture","authors":"Chengjun Li, Huan Zhong, Wenjing Ning, Gao Hu, Mengjie Wu, Yujie Liu, Bing Yan, Hongqiang Ren, Christian Sonne","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-00994-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-00994-z","url":null,"abstract":"Crop pest invasions and their interactions with climate change may have been overlooked in crop yield projections, hindering the development of climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture. A harmonized strategy is proposed to integrate such interactions into crop yield projections and management under climate change scenarios.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"5 6","pages":"447-450"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141333643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-14DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01001-1
Sacha J. Mooney, Gabriel Castrillo, Hannah V. Cooper, Malcolm J. Bennett
Building soil health and manipulating the soil microbiome, alongside targeted plant breeding that prioritizes preferential root architectural development, hold the key to the future success of regenerative agriculture. Greater integration is needed between disciplines focused on the rhizosphere scale with plant, microbiome and soil scientists working at the wider farm scale.
{"title":"Root–soil–microbiome management is key to the success of regenerative agriculture","authors":"Sacha J. Mooney, Gabriel Castrillo, Hannah V. Cooper, Malcolm J. Bennett","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01001-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-01001-1","url":null,"abstract":"Building soil health and manipulating the soil microbiome, alongside targeted plant breeding that prioritizes preferential root architectural development, hold the key to the future success of regenerative agriculture. Greater integration is needed between disciplines focused on the rhizosphere scale with plant, microbiome and soil scientists working at the wider farm scale.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"5 6","pages":"451-453"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141319810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-00996-x
Collin R. Barnum, Bruna Paviani, Garret Couture, Chad Masarweh, Ye Chen, Yu-Ping Huang, Kasey Markel, David A. Mills, Carlito B. Lebrilla, Daniela Barile, Minliang Yang, Patrick M. Shih
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are a diverse class of carbohydrates which support the health and development of infants. The vast health benefits of HMOs have made them a commercial target for microbial production; however, producing the approximately 200 structurally diverse HMOs at scale has proved difficult. Here we produce a diversity of HMOs by leveraging the robust carbohydrate anabolism of plants. This diversity includes high-value and complex HMOs, such as lacto-N-fucopentaose I. HMOs produced in transgenic plants provided strong bifidogenic properties, indicating their ability to serve as a prebiotic supplement with potential applications in adult and infant health. Technoeconomic analyses demonstrate that producing HMOs in plants provides a path to the large-scale production of specific HMOs at lower prices than microbial production platforms. Our work demonstrates the promise in leveraging plants for the low-cost and sustainable production of HMOs. Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are essential carbohydrates for the early development of infants. In this study, the intrinsic carbohydrate anabolism of plants is leveraged to produce a variety of HMOs, highlighting the potential of this method for commercial applications.
{"title":"Engineered plants provide a photosynthetic platform for the production of diverse human milk oligosaccharides","authors":"Collin R. Barnum, Bruna Paviani, Garret Couture, Chad Masarweh, Ye Chen, Yu-Ping Huang, Kasey Markel, David A. Mills, Carlito B. Lebrilla, Daniela Barile, Minliang Yang, Patrick M. Shih","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-00996-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-00996-x","url":null,"abstract":"Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are a diverse class of carbohydrates which support the health and development of infants. The vast health benefits of HMOs have made them a commercial target for microbial production; however, producing the approximately 200 structurally diverse HMOs at scale has proved difficult. Here we produce a diversity of HMOs by leveraging the robust carbohydrate anabolism of plants. This diversity includes high-value and complex HMOs, such as lacto-N-fucopentaose I. HMOs produced in transgenic plants provided strong bifidogenic properties, indicating their ability to serve as a prebiotic supplement with potential applications in adult and infant health. Technoeconomic analyses demonstrate that producing HMOs in plants provides a path to the large-scale production of specific HMOs at lower prices than microbial production platforms. Our work demonstrates the promise in leveraging plants for the low-cost and sustainable production of HMOs. Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are essential carbohydrates for the early development of infants. In this study, the intrinsic carbohydrate anabolism of plants is leveraged to produce a variety of HMOs, highlighting the potential of this method for commercial applications.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"5 6","pages":"480-490"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-00996-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141315686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-00995-y
Huayi Hu, Hao Du
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) play a crucial role in infant health. Yet their production on a large scale presents challenges. A diverse range of HMOs can be effectively produced through plant-based methods, opening up the possibility of using HMOs as prebiotic supplements in a sustainable and cost-effective manner.
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The contribution of crop and livestock production to the exceedance of the planetary boundary for phosphorus (P) in China is still unclear, despite the country’s well-known issues with P fertilizer overuse and P-related water pollution. Using coupled models at sub-basin scales we estimate that livestock production increased the consumption of P fertilizer fivefold and exacerbated P losses twofold from 1980 to 2017. At present, China’s crop–livestock system is responsible for exceeding what is considered a ‘just’ threshold for fertilizer P use by 30% (ranging from 17% to 68%) and a ‘safe’ water quality threshold by 45% (ranging from 31% to 74%) in 25 sub-basins in China. Improving the crop–livestock system will keep all sub-basins within safe water quality and just multigenerational limits for P in 2050. Sustainable phosphorus (P) management is central to food security and a healthy environment. This study quantifies the impacts of crop–livestock production on P use and losses at the sub-basin scale in China and evaluates the exceedance of a ‘safe’ and ‘just’ P planetary boundary.
{"title":"An optimized crop–livestock system can achieve a safe and just planetary boundary for phosphorus at the sub-basin level in China","authors":"Ling Liu, Zhaohai Bai, Jing Yang, Zengwei Yuan, Fei Lun, Mengru Wang, Maryna Strokal, Carolien Kroeze, Zhenling Cui, Xinping Chen, Lin Ma","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-00977-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-00977-0","url":null,"abstract":"The contribution of crop and livestock production to the exceedance of the planetary boundary for phosphorus (P) in China is still unclear, despite the country’s well-known issues with P fertilizer overuse and P-related water pollution. Using coupled models at sub-basin scales we estimate that livestock production increased the consumption of P fertilizer fivefold and exacerbated P losses twofold from 1980 to 2017. At present, China’s crop–livestock system is responsible for exceeding what is considered a ‘just’ threshold for fertilizer P use by 30% (ranging from 17% to 68%) and a ‘safe’ water quality threshold by 45% (ranging from 31% to 74%) in 25 sub-basins in China. Improving the crop–livestock system will keep all sub-basins within safe water quality and just multigenerational limits for P in 2050. Sustainable phosphorus (P) management is central to food security and a healthy environment. This study quantifies the impacts of crop–livestock production on P use and losses at the sub-basin scale in China and evaluates the exceedance of a ‘safe’ and ‘just’ P planetary boundary.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"5 6","pages":"499-512"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141287289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-06-07DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-00948-5
Yadong Yu
Staying within the safe and just planetary boundary of phosphorus in China at the river-basin scale requires a systemic management strategy for the livestock sector.
要使中国流域范围内的磷含量保持在安全、公正的地球边界内，就需要对畜牧业采取系统的管理策略。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-00999-8
Zhenong Jin, David Tilman
Crop diversity and cropland area stabilize food production as much as irrigation, but larger countries are likely to benefit more. This relationship can guide policy development and nation-specific management strategies in the pursuit of stable food supplies.
{"title":"Crop diversity benefits increase with nation size","authors":"Zhenong Jin, David Tilman","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-00999-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-00999-8","url":null,"abstract":"Crop diversity and cropland area stabilize food production as much as irrigation, but larger countries are likely to benefit more. This relationship can guide policy development and nation-specific management strategies in the pursuit of stable food supplies.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"5 6","pages":"463-464"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141235992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-28DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-00984-1
Jon Sampedro
Circularity principles and tipping the ratio of animal- to plant-based proteins towards plant-based diets could largely reduce greenhouse gas emissions and land-use change impacts in the EU28, while avoiding micronutrient losses associated with lower animal-based protein intake.
{"title":"A sustainable protein ratio","authors":"Jon Sampedro","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-00984-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-00984-1","url":null,"abstract":"Circularity principles and tipping the ratio of animal- to plant-based proteins towards plant-based diets could largely reduce greenhouse gas emissions and land-use change impacts in the EU28, while avoiding micronutrient losses associated with lower animal-based protein intake.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"5 5","pages":"357-358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141159650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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