ReviewNature food2025
Low-carbon ammonia production is essential for resilient and sustainable agriculture.
Review in Nature food, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Isolation of rhizobia from Ontario soils that are effective at fixing nitrogen with common bean (Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Mechanistic Insight Into Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia Over PdBi Single-Atom Alloys.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Smart and sustainable production of fertilizer by electrochromic self-perception recovery of ammonium from wastewater.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Green Ammonia Generation with a Polypyridine Cobalt Complex and Visible Light.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction for Green Ammonia: Mechanistic Insights and Advanced Materials Design.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Review
- Ammonia at the net-zero crossroads.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Mechanoluminescence-Enhanced Ammonia Synthesis via Mechanochemical Nitrate Reduction.ACS nano · 2026Article
- Machine learning-optimized composting strategies can enhance nutrient recycling and transform food system waste into a net carbon sink.Nature food · 2026Article
- First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ammonia Adsorption onto MFI Zeolite Nanosheets.ACS nanoscience Au · 2026Article
- Continuous Ammonia Electrosynthesis from Nitrogen and Water in a Monolithic Pd Membrane-Based Flow Cell.ACS energy letters · 2026Article
- Heterophase fcc-hcp-fcc High-Entropy Alloy Nanomaterials with Tailored Electron Divergence for Selective Ammonia Electrosynthesis.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Trace-Level Ammonia-Water Interactions in Hydrogen: Challenges in Gas Purity Analysis Using Optical-Feedback Cavity-Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy (OF-CEAS).ACS measurement science au · 2025Article
- A global analysis of the rise, reign, and retreat of topics in research toward sustainable platform chemicals.Green chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC · 2025Article
- Ammonia decarbonization requires region-specific interventions.Nature food · 2025Article
- Low-carbon ammonia production is essential for resilient and sustainable agriculture.Nature food · 2025Review
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Abstract
Ammonia-based synthetic nitrogen fertilizers (N fertilizers) are critical for global food security. However, their production, primarily dependent on fossil fuels, is energy- and carbon-intensive and vulnerable to supply chain disruptions, affecting 1.8 billion people reliant on either imported fertilizers or natural gas. Here we examine the global N-fertilizer supply chain and analyse context-specific trade-offs of low-carbon ammonia production pathways. Carbon capture and storage can reduce overall emissions by up to 70%, but still relies on natural gas. Electrolytic and biochemical processes minimize emissions but are 2-3 times more expensive and require 100-300 times more land and water than the business-as-usual production. Decentralized production has the potential to reduce transportation costs, emissions, reliance on imports and price volatility, increasing agricultural productivity in the global south, but requires policy support. Interdisciplinary approaches are essential to understand these trade-offs and find resilient ways to feed a growing population while minimizing climate impacts.
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