Nature FoodPub Date : 2024-10-03DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01054-2
Chris Bryant, Harry Aiking, Roberta Alessandrini, Paul Behrens, Felix Creutzig, Gidon Eshel, Rosemary Green, Nicholas Hutchings, Adrian Leip, Ron Milo, Pete Smith, Hannah van Zanten
{"title":"The Dublin Declaration fails to recognize the need to reduce industrial animal agriculture","authors":"Chris Bryant, Harry Aiking, Roberta Alessandrini, Paul Behrens, Felix Creutzig, Gidon Eshel, Rosemary Green, Nicholas Hutchings, Adrian Leip, Ron Milo, Pete Smith, Hannah van Zanten","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01054-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01054-2","url":null,"abstract":"The framework presented in the Dublin Declaration has generated controversy by advocating for maintaining or increasing livestock numbers. The serious and acute harms associated with global livestock production today bring the goals of the declaration into dispute.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142368991","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}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2024-10-02DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01066-y
{"title":"Impact of human activities on fish mercury concentrations","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01066-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01066-y","url":null,"abstract":"Fish consumption is a major route of human exposure to mercury. Now, an analysis suggests that human activities have an important role in shaping geographic variations in total mercury and methylmercury concentrations in fish. Although managing mercury contamination is a global issue, local policies are important for more effective mercury management.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142362995","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}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01047-1
Abrania Marrero, Christie Nicoson, Heather Kelahan, Kenny Mendoza, Meg Salvia, Christopher Golden, Josiemer Mattei
{"title":"Equity as a priority in EAT–Lancet-aligned food system transformations","authors":"Abrania Marrero, Christie Nicoson, Heather Kelahan, Kenny Mendoza, Meg Salvia, Christopher Golden, Josiemer Mattei","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01047-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01047-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Food systems drive human and environmental change, reflect diverse cultural and ecological contexts, and, in their diversity, can bolster nutrition and planetary health. Ignoring structural inequities in food system transformations risks offsetting potential gains. We summarize current evidence on the context-dependent implications of EAT–<i>Lancet</i> goals and propose six priority areas to guide equitable food system transformations, targeting food and nutrition security, just sustainability and cultural diversity. Priority areas—namely, diverse and nutritious food access, food industry regulation, climate-resilient food production, localized, small-scale food systems, cultural diversity and social well-being—can be achieved through public, private and civil society action.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142360163","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}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01059-x
Kai Zhu, Rui Li, Pang Yao, Hancheng Yu, An Pan, JoAnn E. Manson, Eric B. Rimm, Walter C. Willett, Gang Liu
{"title":"Proteomic signatures of healthy dietary patterns are associated with lower risks of major chronic diseases and mortality","authors":"Kai Zhu, Rui Li, Pang Yao, Hancheng Yu, An Pan, JoAnn E. Manson, Eric B. Rimm, Walter C. Willett, Gang Liu","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01059-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01059-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Healthy dietary patterns have been linked to a decreased risk of chronic diseases. However, it remains uncertain whether proteomic signatures can reflect proteome response to healthy diet patterns, and whether these proteomic signatures are associated with health outcomes. Using data from the UK Biobank including Olink plasma proteins, we identified substantial proteomic variation in relation to adherence to eight healthy dietary patterns. The proteomic signatures, reflecting adherence and proteome response to healthy dietary patterns, were prospectively associated with lower risks of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, chronic kidney diseases and cancers, along with longer life expectancy, even after adjusting for corresponding dietary patterns. These findings suggest proteomic signatures have the potential to complement traditional dietary assessments and deepen our understanding of the relationships between dietary patterns and chronic diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142325137","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}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01057-z
Yize Liu, Minghao Zhuang, Xia Liang, Shu Kee Lam, Deli Chen, Arunima Malik, Mengyu Li, Manfred Lenzen, Liying Zhang, Rui Zhang, Lixiao Zhang, Yan Hao
{"title":"Localized nitrogen management strategies can halve fertilizer use in Chinese staple crop production","authors":"Yize Liu, Minghao Zhuang, Xia Liang, Shu Kee Lam, Deli Chen, Arunima Malik, Mengyu Li, Manfred Lenzen, Liying Zhang, Rui Zhang, Lixiao Zhang, Yan Hao","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01057-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01057-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nitrogen (N) management is the key to achieving food security and environmental sustainability. Here we analyse N flows using a localized N management model for wheat, maize and rice in 1,690 Chinese counties, with a breakdown of multiple reactive N (Nr) loss pathways. Results show that the total N input for producing these three staple crops in China was 22.2 Tg N in 2015, of which 7.4 Tg N was harvested as grain N and 4.0 Tg N was Nr losses in the forms of NH<sub>3</sub> (47%), NO<sub><i>x</i></sub> (10%), N<sub>2</sub>O (3%), and leaching and runoff (40%). By assuming a production level equivalent to that of the top 10% of counties with the highest N use efficiency and yields surpassing the regional average, we reveal the possibility of achieving national staple crop production targets while improving net ecosystem economic benefit in 2050 through a 49% reduction (10.4 Tg N) in synthetic N fertilizer inputs and a 52% decrease (2.9 Tg N) in Nr losses.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142322014","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}
{"title":"Human activities shape important geographic differences in fish mercury concentration levels","authors":"Yuping Xiang, Guangliang Liu, Yongguang Yin, Yanbin Li, Dingyong Wang, Yong Cai, Guibin Jiang","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01049-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01049-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fish consumption is a major route of human exposure to mercury (Hg), yet limited understanding of how anthropogenic activities drive geographic variations in fish Hg worldwide hinders effective Hg pollution management. Here we characterized global geographic variations in total Hg (THg) and methylmercury (MeHg), compared THg and MeHg levels between the United States and China, and used a structural equation model to link the geographic variability of MeHg in fish to human activities. Despite previously reported higher Hg emissions in China, Chinese fish have lower THg and MeHg levels than fish in the United States owing to a lower trophic magnification slope, shortened food chains and shorter fish lifespans. The structural equation model revealed strong impacts of human activities on MeHg levels in fish. In the future, China may face elevated MeHg levels in fish with the ongoing recovery of food web ecology, highlighting the importance of local policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142321399","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}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01050-6
Michael Martin
{"title":"AI-driven optimization in plant factories","authors":"Michael Martin","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01050-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01050-6","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve the energy and resource use efficiency of plant factories with artificial lighting, promoting more economically viable and environmentally sustainable indoor agriculture.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142321398","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}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2024-09-18DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01046-2
Lei Feng, Ruiqi Luo, Xiaojie Liu, Melissa Pflugh Prescott, Weili Li, Jie Song, Yi Yang
{"title":"Global school plate waste estimates highlight the need for building a sustainable food education system","authors":"Lei Feng, Ruiqi Luo, Xiaojie Liu, Melissa Pflugh Prescott, Weili Li, Jie Song, Yi Yang","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01046-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01046-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Food waste reduction is essential for supporting the sustainability of food systems. Wasteful behaviours are difficult to change after they have been formed, highlighting the importance of early interventions. Here we present an assessment of school plate food waste from 29 countries, and examine the environmental implications, causes, and interventions. School plate waste ranged from 4% to 46% per capita per meal and was positively correlated with country income levels. On a global scale, this waste embodies <span>∼</span>150 Mha of cropland and <span>∼</span>770 MtCO<sub>2</sub>e of greenhouse gas emissions; hence, reducing school plate food waste offers potentially large environmental gains. We propose a comprehensive, multistakeholder framework centred around sustainable food education that cultivates food systems knowledge and skills, and an appreciation for nature and food labour to reduce the psychological distance between youth and their food waste. To effectively implement the framework requires the support and engagement of families, communities and the broader society beyond the confines of schools.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236685","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}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01058-y
Lynnette M Neufeld,Edward A Frongillo,Jennifer C Coates,Victor M Aguayo,Francesco Branca
{"title":"Author Correction: Consensus on commitment and action to monitor healthy diets.","authors":"Lynnette M Neufeld,Edward A Frongillo,Jennifer C Coates,Victor M Aguayo,Francesco Branca","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01058-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01058-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142231749","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}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01044-4
Peng Kuai, Na Lin, Miaofen Ye, Meng Ye, Lin Chen, Shuting Chen, Hongyue Zu, Lingfei Hu, Angharad M. R. Gatehouse, Yonggen Lou
{"title":"Identification and knockout of a herbivore susceptibility gene enhances planthopper resistance and increases rice yield","authors":"Peng Kuai, Na Lin, Miaofen Ye, Meng Ye, Lin Chen, Shuting Chen, Hongyue Zu, Lingfei Hu, Angharad M. R. Gatehouse, Yonggen Lou","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01044-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01044-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Brown planthoppers (<i>Nilaparvata lugens</i>) and white-backed planthoppers (<i>Sogatella furcifera</i>) are among the most destructive pests on rice. However, plant susceptibility genes have not yet been exploited for crop protection. Here we identified a leucine-rich repeat protein, OsLRR2, from susceptible rice varieties that facilitates infestation by brown planthopper <i>N. lugens</i>. Field trials showed that knockout of <i>OsLRR2</i> significantly reduced BPH infestation and enhanced natural biological control by attracting natural enemies. Yield of a susceptible variety was increased by 18% in insecticide-treated plots that eliminated planthoppers and by 25% in untreated plots. These findings underscore the pivotal role of OsLRR2, offering a promising pathway for pest population suppression and rice yield increase.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142158837","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}