Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01126-x
Jin Zhao, Na Li, Xiaoguang Yang, Zhanxiang Sun
{"title":"For the protection of black soils","authors":"Jin Zhao, Na Li, Xiaoguang Yang, Zhanxiang Sun","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01126-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01126-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During the past 100 years, intensive farming practices on black soils have led to extensive erosion<sup>4</sup>. Notable examples include the Dust Bowl in Ukraine in 1928 and in the United States in the 1930s. In China, the degradation of black soil under climate change includes thinning, nutrient depletion, compaction and acidification. Recent estimates indicate that the organic matter content of the black soil cultivation layer in China has decreased by one-third over the past 60 years (with some areas experiencing a 50% decline), while the layer thickness has decreased by more than 20 cm (ref. <sup>5</sup>).</p><p>Some countries, including the United States and Ukraine, have adopted measures to protect black soils since the 1930s, including the enactment of laws and regulations as well as research and extension of new technologies for sustainable soil use. These measures have helped control soil erosion, leading to an improvement in soil fertility and crop production levels. In the United States specifically, conservation tillage has been used on two-thirds of the cropland since the 1960s (ref. <sup>6</sup>) with considerable benefits for the soil (for example, erosion reduction by up to 90%, improved soil structure and 30% more soil organic matter) and yields, particularly in rain-fed fields<sup>7</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143401194","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 : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01118-x
Ulrike Ehgartner, Alana Kluczkovski, Bob Doherty
{"title":"Public food procurement as a tool for building food system resilience in the UK","authors":"Ulrike Ehgartner, Alana Kluczkovski, Bob Doherty","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01118-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01118-x","url":null,"abstract":"Public institutions, as essential providers of meals to diverse communities, have a responsibility to support sustainable and equitable food systems through strategic procurement policies. By adopting robust sustainability criteria and supporting rural economies, they can strengthen food system resilience. By also ensuring nutritious food is accessible, public-sector catering plays a key role in the transition to a resilient, equitable food future.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143401195","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 : 2025-02-12DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01121-2
Rob Moss, Thomas Fairhurst, Patricio Grassini
{"title":"An enhanced genetics × environment × management framework for yield intensification","authors":"Rob Moss, Thomas Fairhurst, Patricio Grassini","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01121-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01121-2","url":null,"abstract":"The classic genetics × environment × management framework, used for assessing crop yield, can be extended to include four enabling factors for yield intensification (knowledge, availability of critical goods and services, experience, and capability). The resulting framework, ‘GEM4’, enables managers and advisors to identify farm-level constraints to yield intensification. The framework may be a useful tool for research and development initiatives at local or global levels supporting crop yield intensification.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143393096","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 : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01132-z
Aimable Uwizeye, Imke J. M. de Boer, Carolyn I. Opio, Rogier P. O. Schulte, Alessandra Falcucci, Giuseppe Tempio, Félix Teillard, Flavia Casu, Monica Rulli, James N. Galloway, Adrian Leip, Jan Willem Erisman, Timothy P. Robinson, Henning Steinfeld, Pierre J. Gerber
{"title":"Publisher Correction: Nitrogen emissions along global livestock supply chains","authors":"Aimable Uwizeye, Imke J. M. de Boer, Carolyn I. Opio, Rogier P. O. Schulte, Alessandra Falcucci, Giuseppe Tempio, Félix Teillard, Flavia Casu, Monica Rulli, James N. Galloway, Adrian Leip, Jan Willem Erisman, Timothy P. Robinson, Henning Steinfeld, Pierre J. Gerber","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01132-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01132-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Correction to: <i>Nature Food</i> https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0113-y, published online 6 July 2020.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143393441","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 : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01120-3
Patrick Caron
{"title":"A renewed interest in controversies","authors":"Patrick Caron","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01120-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01120-3","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing polarization of food systems debates hampers transformation towards sustainability. Making knowledge actionable and action knowledgeable is key for our society to move forward, says Patrick Caron.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143385265","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 : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01122-1
Shuang-Lin Dong, Ling Cao, Wen-Jing Liu, Ming Huang, Yun-Xia Sun, Yu-Yang Zhang, Shuang-En Yu, Yan-Gen Zhou, Li Li, Yun-Wei Dong
{"title":"System-specific aquaculture annual growth rates can mitigate the trilemma of production, pollution and carbon dioxide emissions in China","authors":"Shuang-Lin Dong, Ling Cao, Wen-Jing Liu, Ming Huang, Yun-Xia Sun, Yu-Yang Zhang, Shuang-En Yu, Yan-Gen Zhou, Li Li, Yun-Wei Dong","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01122-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01122-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aquaculture sector faces a trilemma of simultaneously boosting production, decreasing nutrient discharges and reducing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. Here we evaluate the growth trajectories and ecological footprints of different aquaculture systems in China, considering both business as usual and ecological transformation scenarios, and anticipate the evolution of sustainable aquaculture in the post-carbon neutrality era. We explore a two-step approach involving ecological transformation and green aquaculture. By adjusting the annual growth rates of six out of nine aquaculture systems, energy use, nitrogen discharge, land use and freshwater usage per unit of mass gain could be reduced by 1.70%, 6.89%, 7.12% and 8.86%, respectively, by 2050 compared with the business as usual levels. Owing to changes in the energy supply mix in China, by 2050, the total CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from aquaculture will only increase by 5.7% compared with the level in 2021. Once carbon neutrality is attained, the focus should shift to mitigating nutrient discharges. Our findings underscore the necessity for substantial improvement in the Chinese aquaculture development plan and offer a blueprint for sustainable aquaculture advancement for guiding policy and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143385269","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 : 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01116-z
Yi Gong, Yi Yang
{"title":"Estimating low-opportunity-cost feed","authors":"Yi Gong, Yi Yang","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01116-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01116-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><span>arising from</span> Q. Fang et al. <i>Nature Food</i> https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00813-x (2023)</p><p>Global demand for animal feed, driven by growing meat consumption, has resulted in deforestation, carbon emissions and biodiversity loss, underscoring the need to improve the environmental sustainability of feed production<sup>1</sup>. Fang and colleagues<sup>2</sup> developed a linear feed allocation optimization model and estimated that feeding more low-opportunity-cost products (LCFs), such as food waste and by-products, to animals in China could have substantial land-use-related environmental benefits. While their study contributes to advance research on sustainable feed alternatives, we question some of the key assumptions underpinning their model and note important discrepancies between some of their predictions and observations.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143375667","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 : 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01117-y
Qunchao Fang, Oene Oenema, Hannah H. E. van Zanten, Hongliang Wang, Yong Hou
{"title":"Reply to: Estimating low-opportunity-cost feed","authors":"Qunchao Fang, Oene Oenema, Hannah H. E. van Zanten, Hongliang Wang, Yong Hou","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01117-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01117-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><span>replying to</span> Y. Gong and Y. Yang <i>Nature Food</i> https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01116-z (2025)</p><p>We are pleased that Gong and Yang<sup>1</sup> consider our work<sup>2</sup> an important contribution for alleviating the multiple environmental stresses caused by the global expansion of animal production and its associated increased demand for animal feed<sup>3,4,5</sup>. Our study<sup>2</sup> revealed that the pressures on land use and the environment can be reduced by about one-third in China when partially replacing commercial feed with low-opportunity-cost feeds (LCFs) in animal production. However, Gong and Yang<sup>1</sup> comment that this result may be overestimated because of the use of simple methods, overestimation of the use of food waste and fish meal as animal feed, use of relatively low feed conversion ratios (FCRs) and other possible alternatives for using LCFs. Here we reply to the criticisms and underscore the validity of our estimates.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143375627","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 : 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01094-8
Hui Wu, Enke Liu, Tao Jin, Buchun Liu, Subramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Jie Zhou, Guodong Shao, Xurong Mei, Pierre Delaplace, Caroline De Clerck
{"title":"Crop rotation increases Tibetan barley yield and soil quality on the Tibetan Plateau","authors":"Hui Wu, Enke Liu, Tao Jin, Buchun Liu, Subramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Jie Zhou, Guodong Shao, Xurong Mei, Pierre Delaplace, Caroline De Clerck","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01094-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01094-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tibetan barley (<i>Hordeum vulgare</i>) accounts for over 70% of the total food production in the Tibetan Plateau. However, continuous cropping of Tibetan barley causes soil degradation, reduces soil quality and causes yield decline. Here we explore the benefits of crop rotation with wheat and rape to improve crop yield and soil quality. We conducted 39 field experiments on the Tibetan Plateau, comparing short-term (≤5 years), 5–10 years and long-term (≥10 years) continuous cropping with rotation of Tibetan barley with wheat or rape. Results showed that Tibetan barley–wheat and Tibetan barley–rape rotations increased yields by 17% and 12%, respectively, while improving the soil quality index by 11% and 21%, compared with long-term continuous cropping. Both Tibetan barley rotations with wheat and rape improved soil quality and consequently yield, mainly by increasing soil microbial biomass nitrogen and microbial biomass carbon and decreasing pH. By contrast, long-term continuous cropping led to decreased soil organic matter, lower microbial biomass nitrogen and increased pH, contributing to yield decline. The benefits of rotations on crop yield and soil quality increased over time. Implementing crop rotation with wheat or rape thus offers a sustainable agricultural strategy for improving food security on the Tibetan Plateau.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143049791","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 : 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01098-4
Yuan Wen, Huadong Zang
{"title":"Crop rotation boosts yields and soil quality","authors":"Yuan Wen, Huadong Zang","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01098-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01098-4","url":null,"abstract":"Crop rotation has been shown to synergistically improve barley yields and soil quality on the Tibetan Plateau, where challenging climatic conditions, limited crop choices and low baseline soil fertility threaten agricultural sustainability.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143049654","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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