Reducing Energy Inputs in the US Food System

By D. Pimentel, S. Williamson, Courtney E. Alexander, O. Gonzalez-Pagan, Caitlin Kontak, S. Mulkey. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering

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The political economy of food systems reform (2017, background): “In the United States itself, 12.7 per cent of households are ‘food insecure’, meaning they cannot afford adequate food for themselves or their families and live on poor diets (USDA, 2016).”
Resilience and the industrial food system: analyzing the impacts of agricultural industrialization on food system vulnerability (2015, background): “It is also clear that short crop rotations require higher pesticide and herbicide applications (Pimentel et al. 2008).”
Energy Intensity of Agriculture and Food Systems (2011, background): “Nonetheless, for certain types of foods, such as highly perishable produce and frozen products, transportation may account for a much larger share because of the need for refrigeration en route and/or air freight to shorten transit times; in these situations, local supply chains may offer energy sav”
Resilience in Agriculture through Crop Diversification: Adaptive Management for Environmental Change (2011, background): “…for maximum production, in general, is most efficient when only one crop is planted because management systems (e.g., planters, harvesters, chemical inputs, irrigation systems) can be designed for one crop type and one crop structure, thereby decreasing labor time and costs (Pimentel et al. 2008).”
The Carbon and Global Warming Potential Impacts of Organic Farming: Does It Have a Significant Role in an Energy Constrained World? (2011, background): “Though not well studied in Canada, some recent work suggests that dairy and eggs, fresh and frozen meat and prepared foods were the biggest food household expenditure contributors to GHG emissions in 2003 [127].”
The end of the road?: agricultural revolutions in the capitalist World-ecology, 1450-2010 (2010, background): “On the other hand, the very escalation of rising energy throughput – declining energy ‘efficiency’, if this is the right word for it (Pimentel et al. 1973, 2008) – can be understood as, first, a farm-level response to the coercion of finance capital, which demands rising productivity in relation to…”
Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture (2012, background): “…promote cheap food imports from industrial into developing countries, government subsidies for fossil fuel-based agrochemicals and commodity crops (Pimentel et al. 2008, Holt-Giménez and Patel 2009, Wise 2011) and irrigation projects that primarily benefit larger landholders (Frampton 1979,…”