ArticleAmbio2020
Towards resolving the phosphorus chaos created by food systems.
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- Seed priming with ascorbic acid and spermidine regulated auxin biosynthesis to promote root growth of rice under drought stress.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Overexpression of PSR1 inFrontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system.Environmental science & policy · 2022Article
- Optimizing the P balance: How do modern maize hybrids react to different starter fertilizers?PloS one · 2021Article
- Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Interaction between Organic Phosphates and Goethite.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Phosphorus stocks and flows in an intensive livestock dominated food system.Resources, conservation, and recycling · 2020Article
- Five pillars for stakeholder analyses in sustainability transformations: The global case of phosphorus.Environmental science & policy · 2020Article
- Fixing the Broken Phosphorus Cycle: Wastewater Remediation by Microalgal Polyphosphates.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Review
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Abstract
The chaotic distribution and dispersal of phosphorus (P) used in food systems (defined here as disorderly disruptions to the P cycle) is harming our environment beyond acceptable limits. An analysis of P stores and flows across Europe in 2005 showed that high fertiliser P inputs relative to productive outputs was driving low system P efficiency (38 % overall). Regional P imbalance (P surplus) and system P losses were highly correlated to total system P inputs and animal densities, causing unnecessary P accumulation in soils and rivers. Reducing regional P surpluses to zero increased system P efficiency (+ 16 %) and decreased total P losses by 35 %, but required a reduction in system P inputs of ca. 40 %, largely as fertiliser. We discuss transdisciplinary and transformative solutions that tackle the P chaos by collective stakeholder actions across the entire food value chain. Lowering system P demand and better regional governance of P resources appear necessary for more efficient and sustainable food systems.
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