Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

By David Tilman, Christian Balzer, Jason D. Hill, Belinda L Befort. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Engineering

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Antibiotic resistome in the livestock and aquaculture industries: Status and solutions (2020, background): “The human demand for animal-derived food sources is rising globally due to the increasing global population and economic growth (Tilman et al., 2011).”
Yield gap analysis of rainfed wheat demonstrates local to global relevance (2016, background): “…substantial global population increases, challenges in adapting to climate change, as well as anticipated changes in diets and consumption patterns by 2050, have raised concerns about food security in the decades ahead (Tilman et al. 2011; Ray et al. 2013; Fischer et al. 2014; Keating et al. 2014).”
Climate change has likely already affected global food production (2019, background): “These ten crops account for ~83% of global kilocalorie production from all croplands [17] and represent several major crop group types.”
Core microbiomes for sustainable agroecosystems (2018, background): “Accomplishing this goal, in the face of doubling global crop demand by 2050, requires rapid and immediate solutions 9 .”
Ecological intensification of agriculture — sustainable by nature (2014, background): “Yet one thing is known for certain: the current model of agricultural intensification is not sustainable (socially and thermodynamically), it is neither ecological nor eco-efficient, it is ineffective at feeding the world, it is harmful for the environment and contributes to biodiversity loss [15–21”
Optimizing land use decision-making to sustain Brazilian agricultural profits, biodiversity and ecosystem services (2016, background): “An additional 1 billion ha of agricultural land are predicted to be necessary to meet future demands for food, fiber, and fuel (Tilman et al., 2011).”
The Realized Yield Effect of Genetically Engineered Crops: U.S. Maize and Soybean (2013, positive): “Yield improvements are critical to the challenges of food security (Fischer et al., 2009; Tilman et al., 2011).”
Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050 (2013, background): “These four crops together produce about two-thirds of current harvested global crop calories [3,18].”