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Fix the broken food system in three steps

Build a global network for mapping, modelling and managing agriculture, biodiversity, trade and nutrition, argue Guido Schmidt-Traub, Michael Obersteiner and Aline Mosnier.
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  1. Guido Schmidt-Traub

    1. Guido Schmidt-Traub is executive director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Paris, France.

  2. Michael Obersteiner

    1. Michael Obersteiner is programme director of Ecosystems Services and Management, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.

  3. Aline Mosnier

    1. Aline Mosnier is scientific director of FABLE, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Paris, France.

Land use and food production are not meeting people’s needs1. Agriculture destroys forests and biodiversity, squanders water and releases one-quarter of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Yet one-third of food is wasted, 800 million people remain undernourished, 2 billion are deficient in micronutrients, and obesity is on the rise. These figures will worsen as the planet warms, soils degrade and the global population grows, urbanizes and consumes more.

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Nature 569, 181-183 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01420-2

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