Publication Date:
2014-07-19
Description:
Achieving sustainable global food security is one of humanity's contemporary challenges. Here we present an analysis identifying key "global leverage points" that offer the best opportunities to improve both global food security and environmental sustainability. We find that a relatively small set of places and actions could provide enough new calories to meet the basic needs for more than 3 billion people, address many environmental impacts with global consequences, and focus food waste reduction on the commodities with the greatest impact on food security. These leverage points in the global food system can help guide how nongovernmental organizations, foundations, governments, citizens' groups, and businesses prioritize actions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉West, Paul C -- Gerber, James S -- Engstrom, Peder M -- Mueller, Nathaniel D -- Brauman, Kate A -- Carlson, Kimberly M -- Cassidy, Emily S -- Johnston, Matt -- MacDonald, Graham K -- Ray, Deepak K -- Siebert, Stefan -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Jul 18;345(6194):325-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1246067.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. pcwest@umn.edu. ; Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. ; Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. ; Environmental Working Group, Washington, DC 20009, USA. ; Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Katzenburgweg 5, D-53115 Bonn, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25035492" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
China
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*Crops, Agricultural
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*Energy Intake
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*Environment
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*Food Supply
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Humans
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India
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Meat
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Oryza
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Population
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Triticum
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United States
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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