Elsevier, Cell Reports Physical Science, Volume 5, 21 February 2024
Digestate is a widely-used liquid alternative to mineral fertiliser, but nutrients readily leech from it, limiting its application. Here, the authors use a porous silicon material to enhance digestate, improving nutrient retention and crop yields.
Elsevier, Advances in Agronomy, Volume 184, 2024, pp 1-66
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 2 and 9 by highlighting the role AI can play in identifying crop improvement methods for sustainable agriculture.
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An overshoot of the 1.5°C target seems inevitable, prompting urgent calls for comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and globally coordinated solar geoengineering research. Drawing lessons from the CGIAR agricultural network, this article proposes a global network of climate action centers to ensure reliable and legitimate research, guiding policymakers and donors in addressing this critical need.
The global food system faces mounting pressures from climate change, resource competition, conflict, and markets, with the harshest impacts falling on nutritionally vulnerable populations. Meeting this challenge demands a paradigm shift in how food is grown and distributed, supported by new science, policy reforms, and broad transformations from farm to fork.
The United Nations Global Compact-Accenture Global Private Sector Stock take report report offers an appraisal of private sector contributions to the SDGs so far and outlines a clear pathway for private sector action over the next seven years.
Elsevier, Agroforestry for Carbon and Ecosystem Management, 2024, Pages 403-417
This chapter aligns with Goals 2 and 11 by focusing on the potential for improved food production when agroforestry practices are exploited. Further, the use of Agroforestry enhances sustainability within food production systems by providing environmental protections and balances.