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    Monitoring the world's agriculture (2010)
    Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
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    Publication Date: 2010-07-31
    Description: To feed the world without further damaging the planet, Jeffrey Sachs and 24 foodsystem experts call for a global data collection and dissemination network to track the myriad impacts of different farming practices.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sachs, Jeffrey -- Remans, Roseline -- Smukler, Sean -- Winowiecki, Leigh -- Andelman, Sandy J -- Cassman, Kenneth G -- Castle, David -- DeFries, Ruth -- Denning, Glenn -- Fanzo, Jessica -- Jackson, Louise E -- Leemans, Rik -- Lehmann, Johannes -- Milder, Jeffrey C -- Naeem, Shahid -- Nziguheba, Generose -- Palm, Cheryl A -- Pingali, Prabhu L -- Reganold, John P -- Richter, Daniel D -- Scherr, Sara J -- Sircely, Jason -- Sullivan, Clare -- Tomich, Thomas P -- Sanchez, Pedro A -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jul 29;466(7306):558-60. doi: 10.1038/466558a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Earth Institute, Columbia University.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20671691" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Agriculture/*methods/trends ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*trends ; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; *Data Collection ; *Environment ; Food Supply ; Information Dissemination ; International Cooperation
    Print ISSN: 0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Published by Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
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    Voluntary sustainability standards could significantly reduce detrimental impacts of global agriculture (2019)
    National Academy of Sciences
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    Publication Date: 2019-01-22
    Description: Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) are stakeholder-derived principles with measurable and enforceable criteria to promote sustainable production outcomes. While institutional commitments to use VSS to meet sustainable procurement policies have grown rapidly over the past decade, we still have relatively little understanding of the (i) direct environmental benefits of large-scale VSS adoption; (ii) potential perverse indirect impacts of adoption; and (iii) implementation pathways. Here, we illustrate and address these knowledge gaps using an ecosystem service modeling and scenario analysis of Bonsucro, the leading VSS for sugarcane. We find that global compliance with the Bonsucro environmental standards would reduce current sugarcane production area (−24%), net tonnage (−11%), irrigation water use (−65%), nutrient loading (−34%), and greenhouse gas emissions from cultivation (−51%). Under a scenario of doubled global sugarcane production, Bonsucro adoption would further limit water use and greenhouse gas emissions by preventing sugarcane expansion into water-stressed and high-carbon stock ecosystems. This outcome was achieved via expansion largely on existing agricultural lands. However, displacement of other crops could drive detrimental impacts from indirect land use. We find that over half of the potential direct environmental benefits of Bonsucro standards under the doubling scenario could be achieved by targeting adoption in just 10% of global sugarcane production areas. However, designing policy that generates the most environmentally beneficial Bonsucro adoption pathway requires a better understanding of the economic and social costs of VSS adoption. Finally, we suggest research directions to advance sustainable consumption and production.
    Print ISSN: 0027-8424
    Electronic ISSN: 1091-6490
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General
    Published by National Academy of Sciences
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