There is an environmental cost of food, always has been, and reducing it is a complexity challenge
Fertilisers are essential to maintain yields in intensive farming operations. So they are applied all the time.
Buying some land looks like a good investment again because the price of land is going up fast
We might have enough phosphate rock or we might not. It depends on who you ask.
Ecology is so complex that even Sweden with 70% of its land area as forest might not be sustainable
Everyone loves a good law, they make us feel safe. Here are 10 from the world of land management that should help deliver sustainability and food security.
It amazes me how much knowledge humanity has accumulated. Even more baffling is how we fail to use it.
It is hard to know what new information humanity needs to survive and prosper. What should the research questions be?
Like a bolt from the blue, soil carbon is the sequestration option to help fix the climate problem. It is no surprise to us scientists and isn’t even the biggest bonus of extra soil carbon.
Mark
