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  • This Article presents a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic global inland-water N cycling processes using a coupled model of hydrology, nutrient loading and biogeochemical transformation, showing that N export increased more slowly than loading due to increased inland-water retention via enhanced transformation and burial.

    • Junjie Wang
    • Alexander F. Bouwman
    • Jack J. Middelburg
    Research
    Nature Water
    Volume: 2, P: 729-740

  • Population growth and associated increases in food and feed demand may drive cropland expansion at the expense of natural area and biodiversity, as well as higher greenhouse gas emissions. This study shows how a more efficient and better targeted use of phosphorus is key to avoiding such environmental problems.

    • José M. Mogollón
    • Alexander F. Bouwman
    • Henk Westhoek
    Research
    Nature Food
    Volume: 2, P: 509-518

  • Consensus exists on the urgent need for food systems to be more sustainable, but defining their environmentally safe operating space is challenging. This study proposes food system boundaries as a share of planetary boundaries, defining budgets across nine boundaries and revealing where boundary transgression is most critical.

    • Sofie te Wierik
    • Fabrice DeClerck
    • Johan Rockström
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Food
    Volume: 6, P: 1153-1163

  • Current trends imply that we will transgress most of the planetary boundaries by 2050; however, ambitious, urgent and universal action to ameliorate climate change and increase resource efficiency can effectively reduce the degree of transgression.

    • Detlef P. van Vuuren
    • Jonathan C. Doelman
    • Willem-Jan van Zeist
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 641, P: 910-916

  • National and international policies have aimed to protect the quality of freshwater by mitigating agricultural nitrogen emissions. However, the nitrogen legacy in groundwater must be accounted for when mitigating the impacts of nitrogen in watersheds.

    • Xiaochen Liu
    • Arthur H. W. Beusen
    • Alexander F. Bouwman
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 7, P: 891-900

  • Existing datasets of nitrogen (N) balance in agriculture are often discrepant. Comparing 13 of them regarding five metrics (fertilizer application, manure application, biological N fixation, atmospheric deposition, and N harvested as crop products) over 1961–2015 reveals why. Recommendations for improving N quantification and an N budget benchmark dataset are also proposed.

    • Xin Zhang
    • Tan Zou
    • Eric A. Davidson
    Research
    Nature Food
    Volume: 2, P: 529-540

  • New research finds future rock fertiliser use as a contributor towards food security in Sub-Saharan Africa can be achieved with both sustainability-driven and fossil-fuel-driven economic growth.

    • Daniel Magnone
    • Vahid J. Niasar
    • Sheida Z. Sattari
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-10

  • In 2020, agricultural imports for the German bioeconomy required 4,000 Giga cubic metres of water to virtually dilute pollution from fertiliser and pesticide use and especially impacted water scarcity in China, Spain and India, suggest total water quality footprint estimates.

    • Anna C. Schomberg
    • Stefan Bringezu
    • Arthur W. H. Beusen
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Earth & Environment
    Volume: 4, P: 1-14