ReviewGlobal food security2021
The role of nitrogen in achieving sustainable food systems for healthy diets.
Review in Global food security, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Two Dimensions of Nutrition for the Planet: Environment and Health.Current nutrition reports · 2025Review
- Yield and Silage Quality of Winter Legume Cover Crop Mixtures Without Nitrogen Fertilization in Spring.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Investigating biological nitrogen fixation via single-cell transcriptomics.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- A multicriteria analysis of meat and milk alternatives from nutritional, health, environmental, and cost perspectives.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Health and functional advantages of cheese containing soy protein and soybean-derived casein.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
- Regional estimates of nitrogen budgets for agricultural systems in the East African Community over the last five decades.Agronomy for sustainable development · 2023Article
- Perspective: Soybeans Can Help Address the Caloric and Protein Needs of a Growing Global Population.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- A Sustainability Compass for policy navigation to sustainable food systems.Global food security · 2021Review
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Abstract
The 'food system' urgently needs a sustainable transformation. Two major challenges have to be solved: the food system has to provide food security with healthy, accessible, affordable, safe and diverse food for all, and it has to do so within the safe operating space of the planetary boundaries, where the pollution from reactive nitrogen turned out to be the largest bottleneck. Here we argue that thinking strategically about how to balance nitrogen flows throughout the food system will make current food systems more resilient and robust. Looking from a material and a governance perspective on the food system, we highlight major nitrogen losses and policy blind spots originating from a compartmentalization of food system spheres. We conclude that a participatory and integrated approach to manage nitrogen flows throughout the food system is necessary to stay within regional and global nitrogen boundaries, and will additionally provide synergies with a sustainable and healthy diet for all.
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