The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture

By J. Pretty, W. J. Sutherland, J. Ashby, J. Auburn, David C. Baulcombe, M. Bell, J. Bentley, Sam Bickersteth, K. Brown, J. Burke and 45 more. 2010

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Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology (2014, unknown): “previous studies, which have used specific criteria to identify priority research questions to advance the field of a given discipline (Sutherland et al. 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013; Pretty et al. 2010; Grierson et al. 2011; Petrokofsky, Brown & Hemery 2012; Walzer et al. 2013).”
The interconnected challenges for food security from a food regimes perspective: Energy, climate and malconsumption (2013, background): “Yet, developing more sustainable forms of agricultural production that build on the agro-ecological knowledge of small-holder farmers has so far received only limited support from national and international institutions and policies (Pretty et al. 2010, Lang et al 2009).”
A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography (2017, methodology): “Inspired by previous studies seeking to identify priority research questions within a scientific field based on a cornucopia of proven methods (e.g. Pretty et al., 2010; Sutherland et al., 2011, 2013; Seddon et al., 2014; Kennicutt et al., 2015), we present the outcome of a survey-based approach…”
Tackling Invasive Alien Species in Europe: the Top 20 Issues (2014, background): “Many differences in biosecurity protocols exist due to variation in international policy, legislation and resourcing of enforcement (Shine et al. 2009; Pyšek and Richardson 2010).”
Doubling food production to feed the 9 billion: a critical perspective on a key discourse of food security in the UK (2013, background): “The 50% by 2030 figure was taken from Rosegrant et al. (2006) whilst the source of the doubling by 2050 figure was an FAO (2006) report ‘World Agriculture: Towards 2030/2050’.”
Life's Bottleneck: Sustaining the World's Phosphorus for a Food Secure Future (2014, background): “Having been ignored in the past, the scarcity of phosphorus began to appear in authoritative reports by key international documents on global food security (23, 52, 53).”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “Hence, the global amount of mobilisable stocks, and the sufficiency and long-term capacity of P reserves to support food productions (Pretty et al., 2010), in addition to local, patchy occurrences of soil, litter and foliar P (ranging in dry foliar tissues between 0.001% and 0.419”
Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence‐based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross‐sectoral exercise (2013, methodology): “The exercise to identify the top questions in agriculture (Pretty et al., 2010) was subsequently used as the basis for a workshop that informed the initial priorities of the UK’s Global Food Security Research Programme.”
Starch from the sea: The green macroalga Ulva ohnoi as a potential source for sustainable starch production in the marine biorefinery (2019, background): “The concerns over decreasing the availability of land and potable water, and the environmental risks associated with the further expansion of agricultural lands, put into question the sustainability of future terrestrial agriculture to supply stable, safe and secure food starch [5,9,10].”