Solutions for a cultivated planet

Data and monitoring needs for a more ecological agriculture

(2011) David P M Zaks et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Agronomic phosphorus imbalances across the world's croplands

(2011) G. K. MacDonald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Integrated soil-crop system management for food security

(2011) X.-P. Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Expanding the boundaries of agricultural development

(2011) Rosamond Naylor   Food Security

The yield gap of global grain production: A spatial analysis

(2010) Kathleen Neumann et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Characterizing the Spatial Patterns of Global Fertilizer Application and Manure Production

(2010) Philip Potter et al.   Earth Interactions

MIRCA2000-Global monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000: A new high-resolution data set for agricultural and hydrological modeling

(2010) Felix T. Portmann et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Mind the gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?

(2010) Rachel Licker et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Monitoring the world's agriculture

(2010) Jeffrey Sachs et al.   NATURE

Tripling crop yields in tropical Africa

(2010) Pedro A. Sánchez   Nature Geoscience

Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century

(2010) Ruth S. DeFries et al.   Nature Geoscience

Update on CO2 emissions

(2010) P. Friedlingstein et al.   Nature Geoscience

Possible changes to arable crop yields by 2050

(2010) K. W. Jaggard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Food waste within food supply chains: quantification and potential for change to 2050

(2010) J. Parfitt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Income distribution trends and future food demand

(2010) X. Cirera et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Food consumption trends and drivers

(2010) J. Kearney   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies

(2010) A. G. Power   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Greenhouse gas emissions from alternative futures of deforestation and agricultural management in the southern Amazon

(2010) G. L. Galford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

(2010) Junguo Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Forecasting potential global environmental costs of livestock production 2000-2050

(2010) N. Pelletier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trading carbon for food: Global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural land

(2010) P. C. West et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Toward a whole-landscape approach for sustainable land use in the tropics

(2010) R. DeFries et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

(2010) H. K. Gibbs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle

(2010) Donald E. Canfield et al.   SCIENCE

Breeding Technologies to Increase Crop Production in a Changing World

(2010) M. Tester et al.   SCIENCE

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

(2010) H. C. J. Godfray et al.   SCIENCE

The story of phosphorus: Global food security and food for thought

(2009) Dana Cordell et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Quantifying blue and green virtual water contents in global crop production as well as potential production losses without irrigation

(2009) Stefan Siebert et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

CO2 emissions from forest loss

(2009) G. R. van der Werf et al.   Nature Geoscience

Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970-2005

(2009) T. K. Rudel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change

(2009) W. Schlenker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nutrient Imbalances in Agricultural Development

(2009) P. M. Vitousek et al.   SCIENCE

Inadequate Assessment of the Ecosystem Service Rationale for Conservation: Reply to Ghazoul

(2008) CLAIRE KREMEN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Carbon payback times for crop-based biofuel expansion in the tropics: the effects of changing yield and technology

(2008) Holly K Gibbs et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000

(2008) Navin Ramankutty et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000

(2008) Chad Monfreda et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change

(2008) T. Searchinger et al.   SCIENCE

Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt

(2008) J. Fargione et al.   SCIENCE

Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems

(2008) R. J. Diaz et al.   SCIENCE