Publications
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Ensuring Crop Expansion is Limited to Lands with Low Environmental Opportunity Costs
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Ten
by and -Installment 10 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future proposes a definition for lands with low environmental opportunity cost. From there, it offers recommendations for how any new cropland expansion can be directed toward these lands.
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Avoiding Bioenergy Competition for Food Crops and Land
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Nine
by and -Installment 9 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future shows that any dedicated use of land for growing bioenergy inherently comes at the cost of not using that land for growing food or animal feed, or for storing carbon.
It recommends several policy changes to...
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Wetting and Drying: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Saving Water from Rice Production
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Eight
by , , , and -Installment 8 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future explores the potential to improve water management in rice production in order to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas...
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Crop Breeding: Renewing the Global Commitment
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Seven
by , and -Installment 7 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future explores improvements in crop breeding that have the potential to boost yields, including marker-assisted breeding,...
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Indicators of Sustainable Agriculture: A Scoping Analysis
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Six
by , and -Installment 6 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future explores the methods and analysis of a scoping exercise to identify a preliminary list of indicators related to...
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Improving Productivity and Environmental Performance of Aquaculture
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Five
by , , , , , , and -Installment 5 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future explores the potential role of aquaculture in meeting global fish demand in 2050, finding that aquaculture production...
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Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Interim Findings
A menu of solutions to sustainably feed more than 9 billion people by 2050
by , , , , , , and -The world’s agricultural system faces a great balancing act. To meet different human needs, by 2050 it must simultaneously produce far more food for a population expected to reach about 9.6 billion, provide economic opportunities for the hundreds of millions of rural poor who depend on...
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Improving Land and Water Management
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Four
by , , , , , and -In this working paper, Installment 4 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future, we examine the role of four improved land and water management practices and the effect they...
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Achieving Replacement Level Fertility
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Three
by , , , , and -The United Nations projects that world population will rise from just over 7 billion in 2012 to nearly 9.6 billion by 2050. This paper examines the nature of the population challenge globally, the effect of population growth on food demand in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the potential benefits―in...
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Reducing Food Loss and Waste
Creating a Sustainable Food Future, Installment Two
by , , , , and -About 24 percent of all calories currently produced for human consumption are lost or wasted. This paper examines the implications of this amount of loss and waste, profiles a number of approaches for reducing it, and puts forth five recommendations for how to move forward on this issue. "...
