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ReviewNature food2025

A mangrove metaphor for sustainable food systems centres diversification as the root of human and planetary health.

Patrick Baur, Margiana Petersen-Rockney, Timothy Bowles, Selena Ahmed

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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 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Patrick Baur *Department of Fisheries, Animal, and Veterinary Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA. pbaur@uri.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4124-5085
Margiana Petersen-Rockney *Environmental Studies Department, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
Timothy BowlesDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4840-3787
Selena AhmedThe Periodic Table of Food Initiative, American Heart Association, Dallas, TX, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mangroves comprise diverse species that exhibit unique adaptations allowing them to thrive in harsh coastal environments in continual flux. Inspired by mangroves, we present a knowledge-to-action framework for conceptualizing sustainable food systems. We posit that human and planetary health are best sought through processes of diversification across multiple root systems to sustain a plurality of desired outcomes. The mangrove metaphor highlights that processes of diversification, which are empirically observable, measurable and reflexive to contemporary needs and contexts, can address food system polycrises and support transitions that benefit people and the planet.

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Conservation of Natural ResourcesFood SupplyRhizophoraceaeWetlandsBiodiversityGlobal HealthHumansMetaphor

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PMID40551007

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