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Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance highlights lack of national self-sufficiency Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Jonas Stehl, Alexander Vonderschmidt, Sebastian Vollmer, Peter Alexander, Lindsay M. Jaacks
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Effects of processing on the phytochemical composition of protein-rich plant-based foods Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-13
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Low greenhouse gas emissions of land-based mariculture still warrant mitigation Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-09
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Robust assessment of climatic risks to crop production Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-08 Yean-Uk Kim, Alex C. Ruane, Robert Finger, Heidi Webber
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Semantic and philosophical approaches for advancing the identification and measurement of food waste Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-08 Andrea Borghini, Nicola Piras
Many global food-waste frameworks do not account for multiple concurrent factors, such as culture, time, context and the aims of the stakeholders. Using the semantic tools developed in the philosophical fields of analytic metaphysics and analytic ontology, we propose a framework to explore and document the conceptual nuances of food waste. By discussing food waste from the positions of substantivalism
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Flood disaster management neglects rural areas Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-05-05 Xiaona Guo, Annah Lake Zhu, Ruishan Chen, Qiang Li, Yinshuai Li, Yaxue Luo, Chenglong Yin, Yongli Cai, Zilong Xia
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China's arable land under threat Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-30 Mingrong Liang, Yuling Liang, Yunbo Song, Jingxin Hong, Yongyue Lu, Lei Wang
Despite such safeguards and a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy for illegal land occupation — among other measures to prevent the ‘non-agriculturalization’ of arable land and the ‘non-food cultivation’ of basic farmland3 — illegal occupation of arable land persists. In 2021 and 2022, inspections by China’s Ministry of Natural Resources uncovered 112 cases of illegal occupation of arable land, including unauthorized
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Pollution mitigation for agricultural machinery in China Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-29 Qingrui Wang, Qing Yang
China’s agricultural sector is undergoing rapid mechanization. Sustainable development of the sector will require low-carbon fuel substitutions and region-specific agricultural management strategies to remain within emission reduction targets.
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Agricultural machinery could contribute 20% of total carbon and air pollutant emissions by 2050 and compromise carbon neutrality targets in China Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-24 Minghao Zhuang, Xu Wang, Yi Yang, Yifei Wu, Ligang Wang, Xi Lu
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Healthy and sustainable diets defined Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Eileen R. Gibney
Although the need for healthy and sustainable diets is unquestionable, what exactly needs to change, and how, remains to be answered.
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Effectiveness evaluation of national nutrition education programmes must be a priority to safeguard nutrition security Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Regan Lucas Bailey, Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, Patrick John Stover, Michelle Scott-Pierce, Elizabeth Fussell Racine, Heather Ann Eicher-Miller, Nadia Penrod, Bart Lynn Fischer
Nutrition education and food assistance programmes have the potential to reduce the societal burdens that disproportionately impact those living in low-resource contexts. Here, we call for a standardized evaluation framework, measures and procedures for assessing nutrition education programmes in the USA as critical for achieving nutrition security and population health while lowering the national
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Author Correction: Predictive equation derived from 6,497 doubly labelled water measurements enables the detection of erroneous self-reported energy intake Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-23 Rania Bajunaid, Chaoqun Niu, Catherine Hambly, Zongfang Liu, Yosuke Yamada, Heliodoro Aleman-Mateo, Liam J. Anderson, Lenore Arab, Issad Baddou, Linda Bandini, Kweku Bedu-Addo, Ellen E. Blaak, Carlijn V. C. Bouten, Soren Brage, Maciej S. Buchowski, Nancy F. Butte, Stefan G. J. A. Camps, Regina Casper, Graeme L. Close, Jamie A. Cooper, Richard Cooper, Sai Krupa Das, Peter S. W. Davies, Prasangi Dabare
Correction to: Nature Food https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01089-5, published online 13 January 2025.
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Published statistical methods fail to accurately estimate crop production potential Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-18
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Dietary species richness for healthy people and ecosystems Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-18 Sebastian A. Heilpern
Estimating food biodiversity remains a challenge due to a lack of consensus on what to measure and how. A dietary diversity index based on Hill numbers offers a simple and effective approach to account for food biodiversity in diets.
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Oscillation-induced yield loss in China partially driven by migratory pests from mainland Southeast Asia Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-18 Chenzhi Wang, Xuhui Wang, Yuxing Sang, Christoph Müller, Yao Huang, Laurent Li, Diane Cooke, Quanbo Zhao, Liangliang Zhang, Yahai Lu, Feng Zhou, Hongyan Liu, Fulu Tao, Tao Lin, Shilong Piao
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Soil health contributes to variations in crop production and nitrogen use efficiency Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-15 Jianming Xu, Chenchen Ren, Xiuming Zhang, Chen Wang, Sitong Wang, Bin Ma, Yan He, Lingfei Hu, Xingmei Liu, Fangzhou Zhang, Luotian Lu, Shuyao Li, Jiabao Zhang, Yong-Guan Zhu, Peter Vitousek, Baojing Gu
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Optimal nutrition for all requires a synergistic approach between food environments and food systems Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-14 Erica L. Kenney, Mary Kathryn Poole
Despite growing recognition of how food environments shape our eating behaviour, existing policy interventions to change them remain insufficient. Approaches focused on the food supply itself, driven by grassroots social change rather than solely top-down policy, are particularly important to improve diet quality.
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Water and aquatic foods in revised principles of agroecology can accelerate food systems transformation Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-14 Sarah Freed, Michaela Guo Ying Lo, Matthew McCartney, Edward Hugh Allison, Douglas Mark Smith, Olivier Marc Joffre, Fergus Sinclair
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Dietary patterns and healthy ageing Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-09 Laurence Daoust
In a recent paper published in Nature Medicine, Anne-Julie Tessier, from the University of Montreal, and colleagues examined the association between healthy ageing and adherence to 8 dietary patterns and ultra-processed food consumption over 30 years. Healthy ageing was defined as living to the age of 70 without the presence of 11 chronic diseases and maintaining intact physical and cognitive functions
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Statistical approaches are inadequate for accurate estimation of yield potential and gaps at regional level Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-08 Antoine Couëdel, Romulo P. Lollato, Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Fatima A. Tenorio, Fernando Aramburu-Merlos, Juan I. Rattalino Edreira, Patricio Grassini
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Foregone carbon sequestration dominates greenhouse gas footprint in aquaculture associated with coastal wetland conversion Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-03 Junji Yuan, Yanhong Dong, Junjie Li, Deyan Liu, Jian Xiang, Tiehu He, Hojeong Kang, Weixin Ding
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Microbial resistance in agricultural subsoils Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-04-02 Cameron Wagg, Tandra Fraser
Agricultural subsoils are susceptible to multiple global change factors such as warming, nutrient enrichment and intensive land management practices. Understanding how the preservation of subsoil biodiversity and its functioning can be maintained through the management of plants remains to be discovered.
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Towards sustainable aquaculture systems in China Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-28 Minghao Zhuang, Yi Yang
Environmental performance varies widely between different aquaculture production systems in China. Promoting strategies that have smaller footprints can improve the environmental sustainability of aquaculture and contribute to more sustainable agrifood systems.
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Food loss and waste valorization offers a sustainable source of biopolymers in bioinks for 3D printing Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-27 Meysam Madadi, Hamid Amiri, Junting Pan, Guojie Song, Dan Liu, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Mortaza Aghbashlo, Meisam Tabatabaei
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Ammonia decarbonization requires region-specific interventions Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-26 Yunhu Gao, André Cabrera Serrenho, Wei Wei
Mitigating climate change and ensuring food security require a reconfiguration of the ammonia supply chain through a holistic and region-specific mitigation strategy.
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Food environments and human health Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-25
This month, Nature Food presents a Focus issue on the recent evolution of food environments, their influence on individual food choices and efforts to reduce their impact on public health.
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Nutrition first Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-25 Laurence Daoust
Reduced access to healthy diets, combined with the pervasiveness of ultra-processed foods, pose severe consequences for public health and the environment. Francesco Branca, former director of the World Health Organization’s Department of Nutrition and Food Safety and invited professor of public health at the University of Geneva, reflects on our current food environment and the need to steer it towards
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Turning food waste into climate solutions Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-24 Hao Zhao, Jinfeng Chang
As global food loss and waste continue to rise, innovative recycling strategies are urgently needed. A new study highlights that the transition from landfill disposal to a circular bioeconomy can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve sustainability in food systems.
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‘Food is Medicine’ to advance mental health and build resilient food systems globally Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-24 Ronit Ridberg, Caroline Owens, Meng Wang, Lizbeth Moreno Loaeza, Lu Wang, Cecilia Gerard, Dariush Mozaffarian
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Existing food processing classifications overlook the phytochemical composition of processed plant-based protein-rich foods Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-24 Jasmin Raita, Hany Ahmed, Kang Chen, Veera Houttu, Retu Haikonen, Anna Kårlund, Maaria Kortesniemi, Baoru Yang, Ville Koistinen, Kati Hanhineva
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Dietary species richness provides a comparable marker for better nutrition and health across contexts Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-24 Giles T. Hanley-Cook, Jill Deygers, Aisling J. Daly, Jeroen Berden, Roseline Remans, Celine Termote, Daniel B. Ibsen, Julia Baudry, Patrick Van Damme, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Paolo Vineis, Matthias B. Schulze, Ky The Hoang, Mélanie Deschasaux-Tanguy, Alicia Heath, Christina C. Dahm, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Guri Skeie, Marcela Guevara, Lorenzo Milani, Daniela Penafiel, Jessica E. Raneri, Francis Odhiambo
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Diets can be consistent with planetary limits and health targets at the individual level Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-21 Caroline H. Gebara, Etienne Berthet, Madeleine I. D. Vandenabeele, Olivier Jolliet, Alexis Laurent
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Author Correction: Further concepts and approaches for enhancing food system resilience Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-18 John Ingram, William Bellotti, Mike Brklacich, Thom Achterbosch, Bálint Balázs, Martin Banse, Simon Fielke, Line Gordon, Saher Hasnain, Lieve Herman, Rebecca Kanter, William Kaye-Blake, Jerome Mounsey, Anne Pihlanto, Allyson Quinlan, Johan Six, Rike Stotten, Thomas Tomich, Attila Tóth, Carolina Yacamán, Monika Zurek
Correction to: Nature Food https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00762-5, published online 31 May 2023.
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Digital agriculture will perpetuate injustice unless led from the grassroots Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-17 Madeleine Fairbairn, Hilary Oliva Faxon, Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Kelly Bronson, Zenia Kish, Sarah-Louise Ruder, Jane Ezirigwe, Selamawit Abdella, Chidi Oguamanam, Matthew A. Schnurr
Situating digital agriculture within recent histories of uneven agrarian development reveals its potential to perpetuate injustice. To avoid this outcome, we argue for innovation processes that centre the needs, knowledge and priorities of communities who work the land.
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Ten years of Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition labelling in Europe Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-13 Chantal Julia, Nikhil Gokani, Serge Hercberg, Amandine Garde
Recognizing front-of-pack nutrition labelling (FOPL) as an important tool for promoting healthier diets, the European Commission announced in 2020 that it would propose legislation for mandatory, harmonized FOPL as of 2022. Among existing FOPL schemes that could be used to that end, Nutri-Score (a summary, colour-coded system) stands out as the most widely adopted since 2017, with studies documenting
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Global seafood production practices and trade patterns contribute to disparities in exposure to methylmercury Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-13 Qinqin Chen, Qingru Wu, Yuying Cui, Shuxiao Wang
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Biochar application using recycled annual self straw reduces long-term greenhouse gas emissions from paddy fields with economic benefits Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-12 Qiong Nan, Daan R. Speth, Yong Qin, Wenchen Chi, Jana Milucka, Baojing Gu, Weixiang Wu
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How and why researchers and advocates should engage with state and local food policymaking Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-12 Anna H. Grummon, James W. Krieger, Marissa G. Hall
Unhealthy diets contribute to one in every five deaths in the United States, yet federal policy action to improve dietary quality has been limited. We argue that researchers and advocates should engage in state and local food policymaking, which offers an important complementary avenue for creating healthier food environments and improving diet quality. We outline key questions researchers can address
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Food waste used as a resource can reduce climate and resource burdens in agrifood systems Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-11 Yingcheng Wang, Hao Ying, Darko Stefanovski, Gerald C. Shurson, Ting Chen, Zihan Wang, Yulong Yin, Huifang Zheng, Tomoaki Nakaishi, Ji Li, Zhenling Cui, Zhengxia Dou
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The mismatch between biological needs and the modern food industry Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-10 Barry Popkin, Shu Wen Ng, Lindsey Smith Taillie
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Improvement of corporate accountability can re-calibrate corporatized food systems Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-10 Kathryn E. Bradbury, Sally Mackay, Gary Sacks
Global food systems are dominated by large corporations that are primarily driven by the goal of maximizing profits and shareholder value. Strengthening corporate accountability to promote health, equity and environmental sustainability is a critical part of recalibrating current corporatized food systems.
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Large farms can decrease soil antibiotic exposure risk to farmers Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-06
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Socio-economic factors constrain climate change adaptation in a tropical export crop Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-06 Varun Varma, Jonathan R. Mosedale, José Antonio Guzmán Alvarez, Daniel P. Bebber
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Trade-offs between resilience, sustainability and cost in the US agri-food transportation infrastructure Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-06 Deniz Berfin Karakoc, Megan Konar
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Optimal farm size reduces global poverty-induced soil antibiotic exposure risk Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-06 Fangkai Zhao, Yinshuai Li, Xingwu Duan, Haw Yen, Lei Yang, Yong Huang, Qingyu Feng, Long Sun, Shoujuan Li, Min Li, Liding Chen
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Challenges for regulatory responses to ultra-processed foods Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-04 Martin White
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Climate change threatens crop diversity at low latitudes Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-04 Sara Heikonen, Matias Heino, Mika Jalava, Stefan Siebert, Daniel Viviroli, Matti Kummu
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Global food retail environments are increasingly dominated by large chains and linked to the rising prevalence of obesity Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-03-03 Tailane Scapin, Helena Romaniuk, Alison Feeley, Karla P. Corrêa, Roland Kupka, Clara Gomez-Donoso, Liliana Orellana, Adyya Gupta, Gary Sacks, Adrian J. Cameron
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Aquaculture carrying capacity estimates show that major African lakes and marine waters could sustainably produce 10–11 Mt of fish per year Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-28 Joao G. Ferreira
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Author Correction: Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030 Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-20 Kate R. Schneider, Roseline Remans, Tesfaye Hailu Bekele, Destan Aytekin, Piero Conforti, Shouro Dasgupta, Fabrice DeClerck, Deviana Dewi, Carola Fabi, Jessica A. Gephart, Yuta J. Masuda, Rebecca McLaren, Michaela Saisana, Nancy Aburto, Ramya Ambikapathi, Mariana Arellano Rodriguez, Simon Barquera, Jane Battersby, Ty Beal, Christophe Béné, Carlo Cafiero, Christine Campeau, Patrick Caron, Andrea Cattaneo
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Low-carbon ammonia production is essential for resilient and sustainable agriculture Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-17 Stefano Mingolla, Lorenzo Rosa
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For the protection of black soils Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Jin Zhao, Na Li, Xiaoguang Yang, Zhanxiang Sun
During the past 100 years, intensive farming practices on black soils have led to extensive erosion4. Notable examples include the Dust Bowl in Ukraine in 1928 and in the United States in the 1930s. In China, the degradation of black soil under climate change includes thinning, nutrient depletion, compaction and acidification. Recent estimates indicate that the organic matter content of the black soil
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Public food procurement as a tool for building food system resilience in the UK Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Ulrike Ehgartner, Alana Kluczkovski, Bob Doherty
Public institutions, as essential providers of meals to diverse communities, have a responsibility to support sustainable and equitable food systems through strategic procurement policies. By adopting robust sustainability criteria and supporting rural economies, they can strengthen food system resilience. By also ensuring nutritious food is accessible, public-sector catering plays a key role in the
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An enhanced genetics × environment × management framework for yield intensification Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Rob Moss, Thomas Fairhurst, Patricio Grassini
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Publisher Correction: Nitrogen emissions along global livestock supply chains Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Aimable Uwizeye, Imke J. M. de Boer, Carolyn I. Opio, Rogier P. O. Schulte, Alessandra Falcucci, Giuseppe Tempio, Félix Teillard, Flavia Casu, Monica Rulli, James N. Galloway, Adrian Leip, Jan Willem Erisman, Timothy P. Robinson, Henning Steinfeld, Pierre J. Gerber
Correction to: Nature Food https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0113-y, published online 6 July 2020.
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A renewed interest in controversies Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Patrick Caron
The increasing polarization of food systems debates hampers transformation towards sustainability. Making knowledge actionable and action knowledgeable is key for our society to move forward, says Patrick Caron.
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System-specific aquaculture annual growth rates can mitigate the trilemma of production, pollution and carbon dioxide emissions in China Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Shuang-Lin Dong, Ling Cao, Wen-Jing Liu, Ming Huang, Yun-Xia Sun, Yu-Yang Zhang, Shuang-En Yu, Yan-Gen Zhou, Li Li, Yun-Wei Dong
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Reply to: Estimating low-opportunity-cost feed Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Qunchao Fang, Oene Oenema, Hannah H. E. van Zanten, Hongliang Wang, Yong Hou
replying to Y. Gong and Y. Yang Nature Food https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01116-z (2025) We are pleased that Gong and Yang1 consider our work2 an important contribution for alleviating the multiple environmental stresses caused by the global expansion of animal production and its associated increased demand for animal feed3,4,5. Our study2 revealed that the pressures on land use and the environment
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Estimating low-opportunity-cost feed Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Yi Gong, Yi Yang
arising from Q. Fang et al. Nature Food https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00813-x (2023) Global demand for animal feed, driven by growing meat consumption, has resulted in deforestation, carbon emissions and biodiversity loss, underscoring the need to improve the environmental sustainability of feed production1. Fang and colleagues2 developed a linear feed allocation optimization model and estimated
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Crop rotation boosts yields and soil quality Nat. Food (IF 23.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Yuan Wen, Huadong Zang
Crop rotation has been shown to synergistically improve barley yields and soil quality on the Tibetan Plateau, where challenging climatic conditions, limited crop choices and low baseline soil fertility threaten agricultural sustainability.