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Highlights: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the world’s largest projected increase in demand for food. Increased dependence on imports makes SSA vulnerable to geopolitical and economic risks...

Desertification affects every continent, but it remains difficult to fully measure the rate and extent of desertification at a global level due to its many forms and to lack of standardized...

The endeavor for greater food security has caused trade-offs between increasing agricultural production and conserving habitat of threatened species. We take a novel approach to analyze...

Camelina (C. sativa L. Crantz) is a promising biofuel crop with high potential for cultivation on marginal soils. In this work, seed yields have been modelled to assess...

The European bioeconomy is steadily driving an industrial, economic, and social growth looking for sustainable biobased feedstocks able to replace fossil-based materials. In this scenario, there is an urgent and increasing...

Our World in Data’s mission is to publish the “research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems”. Our World in Data contains a topic “Food and Agriculture”.

The paper is a brief Comment on the article of D.J. Connor, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103404). Connor compares how much human-metabolizable energy (HME) could be produced in Swedish organic...

The distribution of crop and fodder production in organic and conventional farms is established for eight regions of Sweden. Regional yield per ha (mass and metabolic energy) of grain and fodder crop...

Southern China, which boasts high-yielding rice multi-crop systems, has long produced most of China’s rice. However, its ability to feed China has...

Highlights Large-scale land-based mitigation (~600 Mha) in pathways in line with the Paris agreement could conflict with food security. Mitigation in 2050 might change food...