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Optimizing organic residue management to improve rice yield and reduce carbon emissions Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-15
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Quantitative food loss in the global supply chain Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Yuanchao Hu
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Plant demethylation in global mercury cycling Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Kevin Bishop, Chuxian Li, Stefan Osterwalder
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A hidden demethylation pathway removes mercury from rice plants and mitigates mercury flux to food chains Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Wenli Tang, Xu Bai, Yang Zhou, Christian Sonne, Mengjie Wu, Su Shiung Lam, Holger Hintelmann, Carl P. J. Mitchell, Alexander Johs, Baohua Gu, Luís Nunes, Cun Liu, Naixian Feng, Sihai Yang, Jörg Rinklebe, Yan Lin, Long Chen, Yanxu Zhang, Yanan Yang, Jiaqi Wang, Shouying Li, Qingru Wu, Yong Sik Ok, Diandou Xu, Hong Li, Xu-Xiang Zhang, Hongqiang Ren, Guibin Jiang, Zhifang Chai, Yuxi Gao, Jiating Zhao
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A call to action for transformation towards nutritious food systems Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Ayala Wineman, Giacomo Zanello, Desalegne M. Degefaw, Folake Samuel, Joe Yates, Bhavani Shankar
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A systematic review of the definitions, narratives and paths forwards for a protein transition in high-income countries Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Océane Duluins, Philippe Vincent Baret
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Systems perspective reveals interconnections in nitrogen and phosphorus flows Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Vilma Sandström
Material flow and ecological network analysis of China’s coupled nitrogen and phosphorus flows shows trade-offs and synergies between food and energy systems.
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Stakeholder-driven transformative adaptation is needed for climate-smart nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Stewart Jennings, Andrew Challinor, Pete Smith, Jennie I. Macdiarmid, Edward Pope, Sarah Chapman, Catherine Bradshaw, Heather Clark, Sylvia Vetter, Nuala Fitton, Richard King, Sithembile Mwamakamba, Tshilidzi Madzivhandila, Ian Mashingaidze, Christian Chomba, Masiye Nawiko, Bonani Nyhodo, Ndumiso Mazibuko, Precious Yeki, Pamela Kuwali, Alfred Kambwiri, Vivian Kazi, Agatha Kiama, Abel Songole, Helen
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Decreasing resilience of China’s coupled nitrogen–phosphorus cycling network requires urgent action Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Zimeng Luo, Yadong Yu, Ali Kharrazi, Brian D. Fath, Kazuyo Matsubae, Sai Liang, Dingjiang Chen, Bing Zhu, Tieju Ma, Shanying Hu
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A three-phase developmental pathway for scaling up urban agriculture Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02
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Challenges of optimal crop management Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Yulong Yin, Zhenling Cui
Redesigning crop management practices for climate, crop and soil co-optimization has great potential to maintain high yields, mitigate social and environmental impacts, and support sustainable agricultural intensification.
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National assessments highlight links between climate and nutrition policy Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Daniel Mason-D’Croz
The application of an integrated assessment framework in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa demonstrates how anticipatory governance and decision support tools can help inform policy-making at the national level in the face of looming climate and nutrition crises.
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Air quality improvements can strengthen China’s food security Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Xiang Liu, Bowen Chu, Rong Tang, Yifan Liu, Bo Qiu, Meng Gao, Xing Li, Jingfeng Xiao, Haitong Zhe Sun, Xin Huang, Ankur R. Desai, Aijun Ding, Haikun Wang
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Scale up urban agriculture to leverage transformative food systems change, advance social–ecological resilience and improve sustainability Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Jiangxiao Qiu, Hui Zhao, Ni-Bin Chang, Chloe B. Wardropper, Catherine Campbell, Jacopo A. Baggio, Zhengfei Guan, Patrice Kohl, Joshua Newell, Jianguo Wu
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Biofortification’s contribution to mitigating micronutrient deficiencies Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Jie Li, Cathie Martin, Alisdair Fernie
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Spatiotemporal co-optimization of agricultural management practices towards climate-smart crop production Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Liujun Xiao, Guocheng Wang, Enli Wang, Shengli Liu, Jinfeng Chang, Ping Zhang, Hangxin Zhou, Yuchen Wei, Haoyu Zhang, Yan Zhu, Zhou Shi, Zhongkui Luo
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An expansive framework to monitor food systems Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Matthew Hayek
In the runup to the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, global progress on nutritional security and environmental sustainability has slowed. A new framework aims to help countries accelerate their ambitions, allowing them to set and monitor targets across food systems.
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The state of food systems worldwide in the countdown to 2030 Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Kate R. Schneider, Jessica Fanzo, Lawrence Haddad, Mario Herrero, Jose Rosero Moncayo, Anna Herforth, Roseline Remans, Alejandro Guarin, Danielle Resnick, Namukolo Covic, Christophe Béné, Andrea Cattaneo, Nancy Aburto, Ramya Ambikapathi, Destan Aytekin, Simon Barquera, Jane Battersby, Ty Beal, Paulina Bizzoto Molina, Carlo Cafiero, Christine Campeau, Patrick Caron, Piero Conforti, Kerstin Damerau,
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Soy production and childhood cancer Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Laurence Daoust
Skidmore, from the University of Illinois, et al. have applied an ordinary least square model to estimate the association between soy production intensification linked to the use of large quantities of pesticides and childhood mortality from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), a type of blood cancer. The disease mortality data used in the study covered a 15-year period, from 2004 to 2019. Municipalities
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The socio-technical protein transition Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Annisa Chand
Mylan et al. analysed academic research alongside primary research into start-up companies and multinational corporates, including company websites, annual reports, press releases, news media and third-party market research, to assess the socio-technical protein transition. Using a multi-level perspective framework, they found that an intensification of engagement with existing scientific and technological
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Aquatic food loss and waste rate in the United States is half of earlier estimates Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 David C. Love, Frank Asche, Jillian Fry, Ly Nguyen, Jessica Gephart, Taryn M. Garlock, Lekelia D. Jenkins, James L. Anderson, Mark Brown, Silvio Viglia, Elizabeth M. Nussbaumer, Roni Neff
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No room for ambivalence Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-12
During COP28, Brazil has announced it will join the world’s biggest oil cartel, casting doubt over the country’s future contribution to the advance of a more sustainable food–climate agenda.
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Knowledge-based nitrogen management Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Muhammed Mustapha Ibrahim, Enqing Hou
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Integrative knowledge-based nitrogen management practices can provide positive effects on ecosystem nitrogen retention Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Ahmed S. Elrys, Jing Wang, Lei Meng, Qilin Zhu, Mostafa M. El-Sawy, ZhaoXiong Chen, XiaoShun Tu, Mohamed T. El-Saadony, YanHui Zhang, JinBo Zhang, ZuCong Cai, Christoph Müller, Yi Cheng
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Preserving global land and water resources through the replacement of livestock feed crops with agricultural by-products Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Camilla Govoni, Paolo D’Odorico, Luciano Pinotti, Maria Cristina Rulli
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Dynamic implications of the biological link between bovine milk and meat production for operationalizing the planetary health diet Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Birgit Kopainsky, Florian Kapmeier
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China’s response to extreme weather events must be long term Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Lei Liu, Hang Xu, Sheng Liu, Xuejun Liu
Specifically in 2023, China endured record-breaking heatwaves during the summer, with temperatures peaking at 41.8 oC in Beijing and a staggering 52.2 oC in Xinjiang’s Turpan, and more than 40 high-temperature warnings. Heat stress has exceeded the upper limit for optimal crop growth4, leading to reduced yields, premature ripening and greater susceptibility to pests and diseases. Rising temperatures
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Author Correction: Large language models and agricultural extension services. Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 A Tzachor,M Devare,C Richards,P Pypers,A Ghosh,J Koo,S Johal,B King
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Live to eat and eat to live longer Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Amanda Adler, Rhea Saksena
If people with unhealthy or typical dietary patterns in the UK were to follow the Eatwell Guide recommendations or longevity-associated dietary patterns, they would likely see substantial gains in life expectancy.
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The untapped potential of legacy soil phosphorus Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Christopher Pratt, Ali El Hanandeh
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The triple burden of malnutrition Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-20
Today’s nutrition crisis is a manifestation of the broader malfunctioning of our global food system. The specific factors linking the two warrant further investigation.
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Life expectancy can increase by up to 10 years following sustained shifts towards healthier diets in the United Kingdom Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Lars T. Fadnes, Carlos Celis-Morales, Jan-Magnus Økland, Solange Parra-Soto, Katherine M. Livingstone, Frederick K. Ho, Jill P. Pell, Rajiv Balakrishna, Elaheh Javadi Arjmand, Kjell Arne Johansson, Øystein A. Haaland, John C. Mathers
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Biofortified foods show variable micronutrient retention depending on post-harvest handling Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-17
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Deep histories of food systems in eastern Africa and current patterns of food insecurity Nat. Food (IF 23.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Matthew J. Hannaford