Food systems contribute 19%–29% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,
releasing 9,800–16,900 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO 2 e) in 2008. …

There is growing concern that satisfying societal demand for food over coming decades will
be increasingly challenging. Much of the debate centres on increasing food production …

We explore the role of agriculture in destabilizing the Earth system at the planetary scale,
through examining nine planetary boundaries, or “safe limits”: land-system change, freshwater …

Agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change.
Agricultural production is highly vulnerable even to 2C (low-end) predictions for global mean …

Food is fundamental to human wellbeing and development. Increased food production remains
a cornerstone strategy in the effort to alleviate global food insecurity. But despite the fact …

266 tions for improving tropical soil fertility through biological processes.” To achieve this
objective, the editors and contributors have produced a new edition of the handbook that …

Dynamic interactions between and within the biogeophysical and human environments lead
to the production, processing, distribution, preparation and consumption of food, resulting in …

… thread in Ingram's social … Ingram then as an Irishman, born in 1823, whose main work in
economics centres about the year 1880, belonging roughly to the decade 1875-1885. Dr. Ingram …

There is growing recognition that humans are faced with a critical and narrowing window of
opportunity to halt or reverse some of the key indicators involved in the environmental crisis. …

While many studies have demonstrated the sensitivities of plants and of crop yield to a
changing climate, a major challenge for the agricultural research community is to relate these …