A better use of fertilizers is needed for global food security and environmental sustainability
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications · Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB
Abstract
Abstract The massive use of fertilizers during the last decades allowed a great increase in the global capacity of food production. However, in the last years, several studies highlight the inefficiency and country asymmetries in the use of these fertilizers that generated environmental problems, soil nutritional imbalances and not optimal food production. We have aimed to summarize this information and identify and disentangle the key caveats that should be solved. Inadequate global management of fertilization produces areas with serious nutrient deficits in croplands linked with insufficient access to fertilizers that clearly limit food production, and areas that are overfertilized with the consequent…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 58.59
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 88
Authors
3- JPJosep PeñuelasCorresponding
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB
- FCFernando Coello
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB
- JSJordi Sardans
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB
Topics & keywords
- Food security
- Sustainability
- Natural resource economics
- Inefficiency
- Environmental science
- Production (economics)
- Business
- Agroforestry