TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture
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 - Clim-Ag Team
AU - Lobell, David B.
A2 - Clark, Michael
A2 - Colquhoun, Jed
A2 - Garg, Teevrat
A2 - Garrett, Karen A.
A2 - Geels, Camilla
A2 - Hernandez, Rebecca R.
A2 - Herrero, Mario
A2 - Hutchison, William D.
A2 - Jain, Meha
A2 - Jungers, Jacob M.
A2 - Liu, Beibei
A2 - Mueller, Nathaniel D.
A2 - Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel
A2 - Schewe, Jacob
A2 - Song, Jie
A2 - Verheyen, Julie
A2 - Vitousek, Peter
A2 - Wada, Yoshihide
A2 - Xia, Longlong
A2 - Zhang, Xin
A2 - Zhuang, Minghao
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
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.
U2 - 10.1126/science.adn3747
DO - 10.1126/science.adn3747
M3 - Review
C2 - 39236181
AN - SCOPUS:85203420180
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 385
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6713
ER -
