TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture
AU - Clim-Ag Team
AU - Yang, Yi
AU - Tilman, David
AU - Jin, Zhenong
AU - Smith, Pete
AU - Barrett, Christopher B.
AU - Zhu, Yong Guan
AU - Burney, Jennifer
AU - D'Odorico, Paolo
AU - Fantke, Peter
AU - Fargione, Joe
AU - Finlay, Jacques C.
AU - Rulli, Maria Cristina
AU - Sloat, Lindsey
AU - Jan van Groenigen, Kees
AU - West, Paul C.
AU - Ziska, Lewis
AU - Michalak, Anna M.
AU - Lobell, David B.
AU - Clark, Michael
AU - Colquhoun, Jed
AU - Garg, Teevrat
AU - Garrett, Karen A.
AU - Geels, Camilla
AU - Hernandez, Rebecca R.
AU - Herrero, Mario
AU - Hutchison, William D.
AU - Jain, Meha
AU - Jungers, Jacob M.
AU - Liu, Beibei
AU - Mueller, Nathaniel D.
AU - Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel
AU - Schewe, Jacob
AU - Song, Jie
AU - Verheyen, Julie
AU - Vitousek, Peter
AU - Wada, Yoshihide
AU - Xia, Longlong
AU - Zhang, Xin
AU - Zhuang, Minghao
PY - 2024/9/6
Y1 - 2024/9/6
N2 - Agriculture's global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding, driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights climate change as an additional amplifier of agriculture's environmental impacts, by reducing agricultural productivity, reducing the efficacy of agrochemicals, increasing soil erosion, accelerating the growth and expanding the range of crop diseases and pests, and increasing land clearing. We identify multiple pathways through which climate change intensifies agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, creating a potentially powerful climate change-reinforcing feedback loop. The challenges raised by climate change underscore the urgent need to transition to sustainable, climate-resilient agricultural systems. This requires investments that both accelerate adoption of proven solutions that provide multiple benefits, and that discover and scale new beneficial processes and food products.
AB - Agriculture's global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding, driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights climate change as an additional amplifier of agriculture's environmental impacts, by reducing agricultural productivity, reducing the efficacy of agrochemicals, increasing soil erosion, accelerating the growth and expanding the range of crop diseases and pests, and increasing land clearing. We identify multiple pathways through which climate change intensifies agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, creating a potentially powerful climate change-reinforcing feedback loop. The challenges raised by climate change underscore the urgent need to transition to sustainable, climate-resilient agricultural systems. This requires investments that both accelerate adoption of proven solutions that provide multiple benefits, and that discover and scale new beneficial processes and food products.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85203420180&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85203420180&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1126/science.adn3747
DO - 10.1126/science.adn3747
M3 - Review article
C2 - 39236181
AN - SCOPUS:85203420180
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 385
SP - eadn3747
JO - Science (New York, N.Y.)
JF - Science (New York, N.Y.)
IS - 6713
ER -
