-
Greenhouse cultivation for more sustainable food systems Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jay Ram Lamichhane
Society must revisit the currently dominant agricultural production model based on land expansion and intensification. Greenhouse cultivation represents a promising alternative, particularly in the Global South.
-
The global nutritional value of recreational inland fisheries Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Abigail Bennett, Jerrold L. Belant
-
Global area boom for greenhouse cultivation revealed by satellite mapping Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Xiaoye Tong, Xiaoxin Zhang, Rasmus Fensholt, Peter Rosendal Dau Jensen, Sizhuo Li, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Florian Reiner, Feng Tian, Martin Brandt
-
Inland recreational fisheries contribute nutritional benefits and economic value but are vulnerable to climate change Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Abigail J. Lynch, Holly S. Embke, Elizabeth A. Nyboer, Louisa E. Wood, Andy Thorpe, Sui C. Phang, Daniel F. Viana, Christopher D. Golden, Marco Milardi, Robert Arlinghaus, Claudio Baigun, T. Douglas Beard, Steven J. Cooke, Ian G. Cowx, John D. Koehn, Roman Lyach, Warren Potts, Ashley M. Robertson, Josef Schmidhuber, Olaf L. F. Weyl
-
Lessons from birth to decline of pig-adapted Salmonella Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Lucy A. Weinert, A. W. (Dan) Tucker
The intensification of livestock farming and related global trade are increasingly linked to the expansion of endemic bacterial pathogens, including zoonotic transfers to people. To preserve food security and public health, it is imperative to find measures that counter this trend.
-
Knowledge democratization approaches for food systems transformation Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Samara Brock, Lauren Baker, Amanda Jekums, Faris Ahmed, Margarita Fernandez, Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Francisco J. Rosado-May, V. Ernesto Méndez, Colin R. Anderson, Fabrice DeClerck, Molly D. Anderson, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Brendan Hoare, Hannah Wittman, Amaury Peeters, Peter Gubbels, Cerasela Stancu, Stéphane Bellon, Jonathan G. Lundgren, Swati Renduchintala, Vijay Thallam, Jane Maland Cady, Paul Rogé
-
Centralized industrialization of pork in Europe and America contributes to the global spread of Salmonella enterica Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Heng Li, Yilei Wu, Dan Feng, Quangui Jiang, Shengkai Li, Jie Rong, Ling Zhong, Ulrich Methner, Laura Baxter, Sascha Ott, Daniel Falush, Zhenpeng Li, Xiangyu Deng, Xin Lu, Yi Ren, Biao Kan, Zhemin Zhou
-
Fertilizer application improvements in China Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Yulong Yin, Zhenling Cui
Management practices including augmenting the ratio of organic to chemical fertilizers, implementing deep application techniques and reintegrating straw into fields can bolster food production while optimizing resource use efficiency and abating nitrogen pollution in China.
-
Phosphorus balancing for optimal crop yields Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Qiumeng Zhong, Sai Liang
Matching phosphorus fertilizer applications to optimal thresholds required by crops mitigates the exhaustion of phosphorus resources and promotes agricultural sustainability.
-
Food policies matter Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-25
Well-designed policies can catalyse food systems transformation, whereas poorly designed ones may perpetuate and even aggravate the food crisis.
-
Food reformulation and public health Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Laurence Daoust
In a recent paper, Barthélémy Sarda, from the Sorbonne Paris Nord University, et al. have modelled the changes in energy and macronutrient intakes of food and beverage reformulation. Food and beverages were identified based on 24-hour dietary records of 100,418 participants in the Nutrinet-Santé cohort and matched to food products found on the French market, allowing for more realistic projections
-
Seafood preservation strategies Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Annisa Chand
Conz et al. identified 49 studies published between 2000 and 2023 exploring non-traditional seafood preservation approaches. They found that chemical approaches were effective during specific seafood processing phases. Organic acids can inhibit bacterial growth, align with regulatory standards and resonate with consumers seeking organic solutions, but concerns about human health impacts and taste and
-
Reconciling trade-offs in pig farming requires a change in mitigation approach Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17
-
Hybrid intelligence for reconciling biodiversity and productivity in agriculture Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 T. Berger, H. Gimpel, A. Stein, C. Troost, S. Asseng, M. Bichler, C. Bieling, R. Birner, I. Grass, J. Kollmann, S. D. Leonhardt, F. M. Schurr, W. Weisser
-
Trade-offs in the externalities of pig production are not inevitable Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Harriet Bartlett, Márcia Zanella, Beatriz Kaori, Leandro Sabei, Michelle S. Araujo, Tauana Maria de Paula, Adroaldo J. Zanella, Mark A. Holmes, James L. N. Wood, Andrew Balmford
-
Soil Geobacteraceae are the key predictors of neurotoxic methylmercury bioaccumulation in rice Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Huan Zhong, Wenli Tang, Zizhu Li, Christian Sonne, Su Shiung Lam, Xiao Zhang, Sae Yun Kwon, Jörg Rinklebe, Luís M. Nunes, Ri-Qing Yu, Baohua Gu, Holger Hintelmann, Martin Tsz-Ki Tsui, Jiating Zhao, Xin-Quan Zhou, Mengjie Wu, Beibei Liu, Yunyun Hao, Long Chen, Baogang Zhang, Wenfeng Tan, Xu-Xiang Zhang, Hongqiang Ren, Yu-Rong Liu
-
Biophysical investigations using atomic force microscopy can elucidate the link between mouthfeel and flavour perception Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Melanie Koehler, Julia Benthin, Sanjai Karanth, Marina Wiesenfarth, Karin Sebald, Veronika Somoza
-
A sustainable metasurface for smart food labelling Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jie Liang, Jia Zhu
A newly developed metasurface that is eco-friendly, non-toxic and water soluble facilitates the use of sensor-enabled food packaging.
-
A water-soluble label for food products prevents packaging waste and counterfeiting Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Joohoon Kim, Hongyoon Kim, Hyunjung Kang, Wonjoong Kim, Yi Chen, Jonghyun Choi, Heon Lee, Junsuk Rho
Sustainability, humidity sensing and product origin are important features of food packaging. While waste generated from labelling and packaging causes environmental destruction, humidity can result in food spoilage during delivery and counterfeit-prone labelling undermines consumer trust. Here we introduce a food label based on a water-soluble nanocomposite ink with a high refractive index that addresses
-
Agricultural management practices in China enhance nitrogen sustainability and benefit human health Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Jiakun Duan, Hongbin Liu, Xiuming Zhang, Chenchen Ren, Chen Wang, Luxi Cheng, Jianming Xu, Baojing Gu
The potential of enhanced agricultural management practices to drive sustainability is rarely quantified at grassroots level. Here we analyse nitrogen use and loss in Chinese cropland, drawing from data collected in 2,238,550 sites in two national agricultural pollution source censuses from 2007 to 2017. We find an upswing of 10% in crop yields and an 8% reduction in nitrogen pollution during this
-
Personalized nutrition as the catalyst for building food-resilient cities Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Anna Ziolkovska, Christian Sina
Data-driven personalized nutrition (PN) can address the complexities of food systems in megacities, aiming to enhance food resilience. By integrating individual preferences, health data and environmental factors, PN can optimize food supply chains, promote healthier dietary choices and reduce food waste. Collaborative efforts among stakeholders are essential to implement PN effectively.
-
Over 80% of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy supports emissions-intensive animal products Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Anniek J. Kortleve, José M. Mogollón, Helen Harwatt, Paul Behrens
The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy strongly influences the European Union’s food system via agricultural subsidies. Linking global physical input–output datasets with public subsidy data reveals that current allocation favours animal-based foods, which uses 82% of the European Union’s agricultural subsidies (38% directly and 44% for animal feed). Subsidy intensity (€ kg−1) for animal-based
-
Phosphorus applications adjusted to optimal crop yields can help sustain global phosphorus reserves Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 R. W. McDowell, P. Pletnyakov, P. M. Haygarth
-
On the value of food systems research Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-20
Every study has limitations; the question is whether it moves the field forward and what this entails for each community.
-
Agri-environmental policies from 1960 to 2022 Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 David Wuepper, Ilsabe Wiebecke, Lara Meier, Sarah Vogelsanger, Selina Bramato, Andrea Fürholz, Robert Finger
-
Towards a nutritional balance of fish for feed and fish for food Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Richard S. Cottrell
-
-
Managing fragmented croplands for environmental and economic benefits in China Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Ouping Deng, Jiangyou Ran, Shuai Huang, Jiakun Duan, Stefan Reis, Jiabao Zhang, Yong-Guan Zhu, Jianming Xu, Baojing Gu
-
Wild fish consumption can balance nutrient retention in farmed fish Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 David F. Willer, Richard Newton, Wesley Malcorps, Bjorn Kok, David Little, Anneli Lofstedt, Baukje de Roos, James P. W. Robinson
-
Carbon dioxide removal with basalt Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Yufang Guo
In a recent paper, David J. Beerling from the University of Sheffield, UK, and colleagues assessed the performance of enhanced weathering and the corresponding soil biogeochemistry changes with a large-scale replicated field trial at the US Corn Belt over four years. The field trial was managed in a conventional maize (Zea mays L.)–soybean (Glycine max L.) rotation with crushed basalt applied annually
-
Seafood access in Kiribati Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Annisa Chand
Using a random forest model and cluster analysis of a nationally representative data set along with targeted survey data, Seto and colleagues applied access theory to trace the flows of consumptive benefit in a fisheries-based food system. The i-Kiribati people consume ~63 kg of seafood per person per year, which supplies micronutrients including iron, zinc, calcium and vitamin B12 and displaces consumption
-
FAO’s 1.5 °C roadmap for food systems falls short Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Cleo Verkuijl, Jan Dutkiewicz, Laura Scherer, Paul Behrens, Michael Lazarus, Maria José Hötzel, Rebecca Nordquist, Matthew Hayek
The first instalment of the FAO food systems roadmap is a key step in identifying pathways to achieve zero hunger without breaching the 1.5 °C climate change threshold. But future instalments should be more methodologically transparent, emphasize the need to reduce animal-sourced food consumption and align with a holistic One Health approach.
-
Optimizing organic residue management to improve rice yield and reduce carbon emissions Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-15
-
Co-benefits for net carbon emissions and rice yields through improved management of organic nitrogen and water Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Bin Liu, Chaoyi Guo, Jie Xu, Qingyue Zhao, David Chadwick, Xiaopeng Gao, Feng Zhou, Prakash Lakshmanan, Xiaozhong Wang, Xilin Guan, Huanyu Zhao, Linfa Fang, Shiyang Li, Zhaohai Bai, Lin Ma, Xuanjing Chen, Zhenling Cui, Xiaojun Shi, Fusuo Zhang, Xinping Chen, Zhaolei Li
-
Health burden from food systems is highly unequal across income groups Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Lianming Zheng, Wulahati Adalibieke, Feng Zhou, Pan He, Yilin Chen, Peng Guo, Jinling He, Yuanzheng Zhang, Peng Xu, Chen Wang, Jianhuai Ye, Lei Zhu, Guofeng Shen, Tzung-May Fu, Xin Yang, Shunliu Zhao, Amir Hakami, Armistead G. Russell, Shu Tao, Jing Meng, Huizhong Shen
-
Complex dynamics between food prices, income and dietary quality in sub-Saharan Africa Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yan Bai, William A. Masters
In sub-Saharan Africa, where the affordability of a healthy diet remains a pressing concern, recent research offers fresh insights into how food prices and income influence dietary quality. These insights provide a roadmap for targeted food and nutrition policy interventions.
-
Hunger, debt and interest rates Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Raj Patel
Particularly for governments in the Global South, no such course of action was possible. Far from increasing spending on fiscal priorities such as feeding the hungry, countries in the Global South were constrained by the imperatives of debt repayment. In the instant that COVID-19 shut down the economy, the possibility of paying debts evaporated, and the number of hungry soared. The G20’s Debt Service
-
Periodic Table of Food Initiative for generating biomolecular knowledge of edible biodiversity Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Andy Jarvis, Jenny Gallo-Franco, Julian Portilla, Bruce German, Daniel Debouck, Maya Rajasekharan, Colin Khoury, Anna Herforth, Selena Ahmed, Joe Tohme, Elizabeth Arnaud, Christopher D. Golden, Corinna Dawid, Stef de Haan, Fabrice DeClerck, Edith J. M. Feskens, Vincenzo Fogliano, Gayle Fritz, Christoph Hald, Robert Hall, Robbie Hart, Audrey Henry, Sanwen Huang, Danny Hunter, Bermet Imanbaeva, Andrew
-
Australian assessment highlights global risks for sheep production in a warmer climate Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Dianne Mayberry, Angela Lees
Ambient temperature increases occurring under climate change could induce livestock heat stress, resulting in lambing losses and an estimated economic burden of up to Australian $166 million per annum to the Australian sheep industry.
-
Heat stress from current and predicted increases in temperature impairs lambing rates and birth weights in the Australian sheep flock Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 William H. E. J. Van Wettere, Sam Culley, Alyce M. F. Swinbourne, Stephan T. Leu, Stephen J. Lee, Alice C. Weaver, Jennifer M. Kelly, Simon J. Walker, David O. Kleemann, Dane S. Thomas, Peter T. Hayman, Kathryn L. Gatford, Karen L. Kind, Seth Westra
-
Decision support tools for agricultural adaptation in Africa Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Todd S. Rosenstock, Namita Joshi, Alcade C. Segnon, Laura Cramer, Caroline Mwongera, Andreea C. Nowak, Lucy Njuguna, Elliot R. Dossou-Yovo, Peter Steward, Julian Ramirez-Villegas
-
A systematic review of the methodology of trade-off analysis in agriculture Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Timo S. Breure, Natalia Estrada-Carmona, Athanasios Petsakos, Elisabetta Gotor, Boris Jansen, Jeroen C. J. Groot
-
Nutrient adequacy for poor households in Africa would improve with higher income but not necessarily with lower food prices Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Ellen B. McCullough, Meichen Lu, Yawotse Nouve, Joanne Arsenault, Chen Zhen
-
Not just farmers’ protests Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-19
European farmers are unhappy with low food prices, high production costs and market competition. Underlying these shared grievances are stark profile differences and interests that go well beyond the agricultural sector.
-
Global food security threatened by potassium neglect Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Will J. Brownlie, Peter Alexander, Mark Maslin, Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, Mark A. Sutton, Bryan M. Spears
-
Politics and sugar taxation in Colombia Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Laurence Daoust
Cárdenas-Torres, from the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, et al. have conducted a policy analysis to identify challenges hindering the implementation of SSB taxation policies in Colombia — where they have been discussed but not yet adopted. A documentary review and mapping of actors involved in SSB decision-making were performed. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 informants
-
Biochar and rice cadmium Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Yufang Guo
In a recent paper, Weijie Xu from Zhejiang A&F University, China, and colleagues have investigated the effects of biochar co-pyrolysed from the mixture of peanut shells and maize straw for the immobilization of Cd in paddy soil. Previous studies show that co-pyrolysed biochar could enhance the reactions and interactions among different materials and thus enhance the favourable properties of biochar
-
Partial substitutions of animal with plant protein foods in Canadian diets have synergies and trade-offs among nutrition, health and climate outcomes Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Olivia Auclair, Patricia Eustachio Colombo, James Milner, Sergio A. Burgos
-
Nutri-Score 2023 update Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Benedikt Merz, Elisabeth Temme, Hélène Alexiou, Joline Wilhelma Johanna Beulens, Anette Elisabeth Buyken, Torsten Bohn, Pauline Ducrot, Marie-Noëlle Falquet, Marta García Solano, Hanna Haidar, Esther Infanger, Charlotte Kühnelt, Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo, Barthélémy Sarda, Elly Steenbergen, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Chantal Julia
-
Health–environment interactions across food systems Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Kate R. Schneider
Food systems are complex and actions in one area are likely to have ripple effects in others. A newly proposed efficiency metric shows how well environmental resources used (and degraded) by food systems contribute to diet-related health outcomes.
-
Health–environment efficiency of diets shows nonlinear trends over 1990–2011 Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Pan He, Zhu Liu, Giovanni Baiocchi, Dabo Guan, Yan Bai, Klaus Hubacek
-
Quantitative food loss in the global supply chain Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Yuanchao Hu
-
Global food loss and waste estimates show increasing nutritional and environmental pressures Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Alessandro Gatto, Maksym Chepeliev
-
Where global crop yields may falter next Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Kyle Frankel Davis, Hanan Abou Ali, Endalkachew Kebede, Bhoktear Khan, Afia Sarwar
Reliably predicting where crop yields may stagnate in the future can offer a suite of benefits for food system sustainability.
-
Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 James S. Gerber, Deepak K. Ray, David Makowski, Ethan E. Butler, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Paul C. West, Justin A. Johnson, Stephen Polasky, Leah H. Samberg, Stefan Siebert, Lindsey Sloat
-
Food systems at COP28 Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-19
A Declaration signed by more than 150 countries in Dubai represents a milestone for integrating food systems into climate policies. Whether it will lead to concrete change remains to be seen.
-
Enhancing crop growth with bioelectronic soil Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Yufang Guo
In hydroponic cultivation systems, the plants are grown in a nutrient solution with or without soilless substrates. The substrates mainly function as providing physical support to the roots. Recently, Vasileios Oikonomou, from Linköping University, Sweden, and colleagues have expanded the horizon of substrates with a bioelectronic soil or eSoil that acts both as a growth scaffold and as a stimulating
-
Climate change and nutritional adequacy Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Laurence Daoust
Bukowski, from the United States Department of Agriculture, and his colleague have modelled the soybean fatty acid response of LA and ALA to daytime temperatures ranging from 15 °C to 40 °C. Data were obtained from 16 studies conducted in Canada, the United States and Argentina, with a total of 233 data points for fatty acid composition and mean daytime temperatures.
-
China’s marine fisheries and climate risks Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Annisa Chand
Li and colleagues analysed data on climatic, ecological, economic, societal and governance aspects of China’s domestic fisheries across 67 species and 11 coastal regions, finding large variations in the category and magnitude of hazard impacts experienced by different aquatic species. Productive species, such as hairtail and mackerel, demonstrated climate adaptations that enhance their resilience even
-
Narratives shaping the protein transition Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Francesca Galli, Michele Moretti
The protein transition seeks to mitigate the adverse impacts of production and consumption of animal-sourced foods. Three diverse but partially overlapping narratives emerge from the scientific literature, addressing drivers of change, actionable pathways and visions for the future.