International Team Crafts Plan for Feeding the World While Protecting the Planet

[OKIsItJustMe]

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International Team Crafts Plan for Feeding the World While Protecting the Planet

October 12, 2011

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Can we feed the 9 billion-plus people anticipated to live on this planet in 2050 without destroying Earth's life support systems? A team of researchers from the U.S., Canada, Sweden, and Germany concluded that it can be done –– by creating a recipe for globally sustainable agriculture.

UC Santa Barbara researcher Christian Balzer, a graduate student in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, contributed to the report, which is published in the October 12 online issue of the journal Nature.

"Global food security and environmental sustainability are not at odds –– they can and must go hand-in-hand," said Balzer.

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"For the first time, we have shown that it is possible to both feed a hungry world and protect a threatened planet," said lead author Jonathan Foley, head of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment. "It will take serious work. But we can do it."

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10452

Solutions for a cultivated planet

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Published online
12 October 2011

Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished while our agricultural systems are concurrently degrading land, water, biodiversity and climate on a global scale. To meet the world’s future food security and sustainability needs, food production must grow substantially while, at the same time, agriculture’s environmental footprint must shrink dramatically. Here we analyse solutions to this dilemma, showing that tremendous progress could be made by halting agricultural expansion, closing ‘yield gaps’ on underperforming lands, increasing cropping efficiency, shifting diets and reducing waste. Together, these strategies could double food production while greatly reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.

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[sam11111]

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[OKIsItJustMe]

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[Nihil]

4. That recurring user doesn't even bother reading the entire OP never mind links ...

... unless he's changed dramatically in this incarnation ...

:shrug:

[NickB79]

3. There are plenty of things that can be done to save ourselves

Too bad we won't until it's too late.

[Nihil]

5. "It will take serious work. But we can do it."

I love the smell of idealistic optimism in the morning.

:rofl: