Nature foodPub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01023-9
Jerrold L. Belant, Abigail Bennett, Kenneth F. Kellner, Maria del Mar Mancha-Cisneros
{"title":"Wildlife harvests can advance food security and the food systems agenda","authors":"Jerrold L. Belant, Abigail Bennett, Kenneth F. Kellner, Maria del Mar Mancha-Cisneros","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01023-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-01023-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141895176","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 : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01024-8
Hong-Zhe Li, Jingjing Peng, Kai Yang, Yiyue Zhang, Qing-Lin Chen, Yong-Guan Zhu, Li Cui
{"title":"Single-cell exploration of active phosphate-solubilizing bacteria across diverse soil matrices for sustainable phosphorus management","authors":"Hong-Zhe Li, Jingjing Peng, Kai Yang, Yiyue Zhang, Qing-Lin Chen, Yong-Guan Zhu, Li Cui","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01024-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-01024-8","url":null,"abstract":"Phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) are crucial for enhancing phosphorus bioavailability and regulating phosphorus transformation processes. However, the in situ phosphorus-solubilizing activity and the link between phenotypes and genotypes for PSB remain unidentified. Here we employed single-cell Raman spectroscopy combined with heavy water to discern and quantify soil active PSB. Our results reveal that PSB abundance and in situ activity differed significantly between soil types and fertilization treatments. Inorganic fertilizer input was the key driver for active PSB distribution. Targeted single-cell sorting and metagenomic sequencing of active PSB uncovered several low-abundance genera that are easily overlooked within bulk soil microbiota. We elucidate the underlying functional genes and metabolic pathway, and the interplay between phosphorus and carbon cycling involved in high phosphorus solubilization activity. Our study provides a single-cell approach to exploring PSB from native environments, enabling the development of a microbial solution for the efficient agronomic use of phosphorus and mitigating the phosphorus crisis. Phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) are crucial for enhancing phosphorus bioavailability and regulating phosphorus transformation processes. This study employed a function-oriented single-cell Raman approach to identify, quantify and sequence active PSB from complex soil matrices to explore the mechanisms of phosphorus solubilization for efficient phosphorus management.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141895175","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 : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01026-6
Jesse A. Goodrich, Hailey Hampson
{"title":"Complex interplay of diet and chemical exposures during pregnancy","authors":"Jesse A. Goodrich, Hailey Hampson","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01026-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-01026-6","url":null,"abstract":"The association between adherence to healthy dietary patterns during pregnancy and higher exposure to certain chemicals highlights the need for an exposomics-based approach to better understand the impacts on maternal and child health.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141877670","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 : 2024-07-30DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01019-5
Di Tian
{"title":"Irrigation expansion in the face of war and climate change","authors":"Di Tian","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01019-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-01019-5","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change and Russian invasion threaten Ukraine’s crop production. Data-informed climate adaptations and water management for sustainable irrigation expansion are recommended for post-invasion recovery in Ukraine and global food security.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141794929","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 : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01020-y
Erik Millstone, Tim Lang
{"title":"Author Correction: An approach to conflicts of interest in UK food regulatory institutions","authors":"Erik Millstone, Tim Lang","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01020-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-01020-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-01020-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141794454","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 : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01029-3
Fernando Aramburu-Merlos, Marloes P. van Loon, Martin K. van Ittersum, Patricio Grassini
{"title":"High-resolution global maps of yield potential with local relevance for targeted crop production improvement","authors":"Fernando Aramburu-Merlos, Marloes P. van Loon, Martin K. van Ittersum, Patricio Grassini","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01029-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-01029-3","url":null,"abstract":"Identifying untapped opportunities for crop production improvement in current cropland is crucial to guide food availability interventions. Here we integrated an agronomically robust bottom-up approach with machine learning to generate global maps of yield potential of high resolution (ca. 1 km2 at the Equator) and accuracy for maize, wheat and rice. These maps serve as a robust reference to benchmark farmers’ yields in the context of current cropping systems and water regimes and can help to identify areas with large room to increase crop yields. High-resolution global maps of yield potential were created through crop modelling and machine learning. These maps can help orient agricultural research and development programmes and assess food security and land use from local to regional levels.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141790960","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 : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01016-8
Lynnette M. Neufeld, Edward A. Frongillo, Jennifer C. Coates, Victor M. Aguayo, Francesco Branca
{"title":"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/s43016-024-01016-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-01016-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141763665","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 : 2024-07-19DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01012-y
Wanqi Liang, Pathmanathan Sivashankar, Yunei Hua, Wenying Li
{"title":"Global food expenditure patterns diverge between low-income and high-income countries","authors":"Wanqi Liang, Pathmanathan Sivashankar, Yunei Hua, Wenying Li","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01012-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-01012-y","url":null,"abstract":"Globalization, income growth and changing cultural trends are believed to prompt consumers in low-income countries to adopt the more affluent diet of high-income countries. This study investigates the convergence of food expenditure patterns worldwide, focusing on total food expenditure, raw food categories and ultra-processed foods and beverages across more than 90 countries over the past decades. Contrary to prior belief, we find that food expenditure patterns of lower-income countries do not universally align with those of higher-income nations. This trend is evident across most raw food categories and ultra-processed foods and beverages, as the income level of a country continues to play a crucial role in determining its food expenditure patterns. Importantly, expenditure patterns offer estimates rather than a precise idea of dietary intake, reflecting consumer choices shaped by economic constraints rather than exact dietary consumption. Knowing how consumers allocate their budget among different food categories helps us understand their preferences, priorities and economic accessibility. This study investigates the convergence of budget shares for total food, stimulants, raw food categories and ultra-processed foods and beverages across more than 90 countries over the past decades.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141726063","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 : 2024-07-18DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01017-7
Lorenzo Rosa, Silvan Ragettli, Ranu Sinha, Olga Zhovtonog, Winston Yu, Poolad Karimi
{"title":"Regional irrigation expansion can support climate-resilient crop production in post-invasion Ukraine","authors":"Lorenzo Rosa, Silvan Ragettli, Ranu Sinha, Olga Zhovtonog, Winston Yu, Poolad Karimi","doi":"10.1038/s43016-024-01017-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-024-01017-7","url":null,"abstract":"Ukraine supplies a large proportion of grain and oilseeds to the world market and faces disruptions from the Russian invasion in 2022. Here we explore the combined effects of the invasion and climate change on Ukraine’s irrigation. In 2021, only 1.6% of Ukraine’s cropland was irrigated. Of this portion, 73% experienced substantial declines in irrigated crop production following the invasion. We estimate that by the mid-twenty-first century, three-quarters of croplands will experience water shortages, making business-as-usual rain-fed agricultural practices inadequate in addressing the challenges posed by climate change. We explore how leveraging local surface and groundwater resources could enable sustainable irrigation expansion over 18 million hectares of croplands and form a viable climate adaptation strategy. Finally, we identify regions for implementing enhancements or expansions of irrigation systems that can foster a more resilient agricultural sector—underscoring the growing importance of irrigation in sustaining crop production in Ukraine. Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in 2023 caused water shortages in two-thirds of Ukraine’s irrigated regions, highlighting the need for localized and climate-resilient irrigation strategies to support future crop production in Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":23.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141725487","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}