ArticleNature food2021
Global option space for organic agriculture is delimited by nitrogen availability.
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- Low-carbon ammonia production is essential for resilient and sustainable agriculture.Nature food · 2025Review
- Green production of apples delivers environmental and economic benefits in China.Plant communications · 2024Article
- Organic cropping systems balance environmental impacts and agricultural production.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Transcriptome Profiling Reveals the Gene Network Responding to Low Nitrogen Stress in Wheat.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Optimizing type, date, and dose of compost fertilization of organic cotton under climate change in Mali: A modeling study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Agricultural input shocks affect crop yields more in the high-yielding areas of the world.Nature food · 2023Article
- Successful implementation of global targets to reduce nutrient and pesticide pollution requires suitable indicators.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Elucidating the effects of organic vs. conventional cropping practice and rhizobia inoculation on rhizosphere microbial diversity and yield of peanut.Environmental microbiome · 2023Article
- Sevenfold variation in global feeding capacity depends on diets, land use and nitrogen management.Nature food · 2023Article
- An agroecological structure model of compost-soil-plant interactions for sustainable organic farming.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Regional estimates of nitrogen budgets for agricultural systems in the East African Community over the last five decades.Agronomy for sustainable development · 2023Article
- Genomic prediction and allele mining of agronomic and morphological traits in pea (Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- An evaluation of homeostatic plasticity for ecosystems using an analytical data science approach.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023Review
- Key Findings of the French BioNutriNet Project on Organic Food-Based Diets: Description, Determinants, and Relationships to Health and the Environment.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- The Impact of Cereal Grain Composition on the Health and Disease Outcomes.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Review
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Abstract
Organic agriculture is widely accepted as a strategy to reduce the environmental impacts of food production and help achieve global climate and biodiversity targets. However, studies concluding that organic farming could satisfy global food demand have overlooked the key role that nitrogen plays in sustaining crop yields. Using a spatially explicit biophysical optimization model that accounts for crop growth nitrogen requirements, we show that, in the absence of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, the production gap between organic and conventional agriculture increases as organic agriculture expands globally (with organic producing 36% less food for human consumption than conventional in a fully organic world). Yet, by targeting both food supply (via a redesign of the livestock sector) and demand (by reducing average per capita caloric intake), public policies could support a transition towards organic agriculture in 40-60% of the global agricultural area even under current nitrogen limitations thus helping to achieve important environmental and health benefits.
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