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":"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":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 2","pages":"123-126"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"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":"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":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 2","pages":"127-129"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"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":"10.1038/s43016-025-01132-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 2","pages":"214-214"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01132-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143393441","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}
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":"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":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 2","pages":"121-122"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"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 : 2025-02-10DOI: 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":"10.1038/s43016-025-01117-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 2","pages":"137-138"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"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":"10.1038/s43016-024-01094-8","url":null,"abstract":"Tibetan barley (Hordeum vulgare) 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. Continuous cropping of Tibetan barley results in rapid declines in both yield and soil quality due to the low baseline soil fertility in the Tibetan Plateau. This study, based on 39 field experiments, showed that rotating Tibetan barley with wheat or rape increased yields and improved the soil quality compared with long-term continuous cropping.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 2","pages":"151-160"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-01094-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143049791","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}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01119-w
{"title":"Five years of Nature Food","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01119-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01119-w","url":null,"abstract":"The journal’s anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on food systems research and to celebrate our contribution to it.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01119-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143049655","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}
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":"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":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 2","pages":"130-131"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"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}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01123-0
Qunchao Fang, Xiaoying Zhang, Guichao Dai, Bingxin Tong, Hongliang Wang, Oene Oenema, Hannah H. E. van Zanten, Pierre Gerber, Yong Hou
{"title":"Author Correction: Low-opportunity-cost feed can reduce land-use-related environmental impacts by about one-third in China","authors":"Qunchao Fang, Xiaoying Zhang, Guichao Dai, Bingxin Tong, Hongliang Wang, Oene Oenema, Hannah H. E. van Zanten, Pierre Gerber, Yong Hou","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01123-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01123-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 2","pages":"213-213"},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01123-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143050580","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}