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The role of nitrogen in achieving sustainable food systems for healthy diets
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, wh...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7938701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33738182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100408 |
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author | Leip, Adrian Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon Kugelberg, Susanna |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-79387012021-03-16 The role of nitrogen in achieving sustainable food systems for healthy diets Leip, Adrian Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon Kugelberg, Susanna Glob Food Sec Article 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. Elsevier 2021-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7938701/ /pubmed/33738182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100408 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Leip, Adrian Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon Kugelberg, Susanna The role of nitrogen in achieving sustainable food systems for healthy diets |
title | The role of nitrogen in achieving sustainable food systems for healthy diets |
title_full | The role of nitrogen in achieving sustainable food systems for healthy diets |
title_fullStr | The role of nitrogen in achieving sustainable food systems for healthy diets |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of nitrogen in achieving sustainable food systems for healthy diets |
title_short | The role of nitrogen in achieving sustainable food systems for healthy diets |
title_sort | role of nitrogen in achieving sustainable food systems for healthy diets |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7938701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33738182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100408 |
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