A grand challenge facing society in the coming decades is to feed the growing human population in a sustainable and healthy manner. This challenge is central to many of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals (SDGs), including the zero hunger goal but also those for human health, water, terrestrial biodiversity and sustainable production and consumption.
This problem is made more complex by an increasingly globalised food system and its interactions with a changing climate. Agri-food system actors - including policy makers, corporations, farmers, and consumers - must meet this challenge while considering potentially conflicting priorities, such as environmental sustainability (e.g., minimising disturbance to ecosystems via greenhouse gas emissions and the use of water, land, fertilisers and other inputs), economic viability (e.g., revenues for food producers and guaranteed access for consumers), nutritional balance and quality (e.g., addressing overconsumption and undernourishment), and resilience to climate change.
This growing complexity of agri-food systems, which can involve global supply chains and difficult environmental and societal tradeoffs, needs to be better understood.
The type of product (e.g. plant or meat based, fresh or processed), as well as the location and method of production, can play an important role in improving the nutritional quality and environmental sustainability of global food production, to enable healthy and sustainable diets. Quantifying and assessing these multiple outcomes while accounting for the linkages, interconnections, and scales of local and global supply chains will be essential for informing decisions aimed at developing sustainable and resilient agri-food systems.
This session welcomes submissions that quantify and assess a range of outcomes from agri-food systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales, and the trade-offs or synergies between them. The session will include studies providing improved methods for quantifying multiple environmental, economic or social dimensions, studies that incorporate the role of food trade into solution-development, and studies that seek to achieve multiple sustainability goals together.
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Please find the updated schedule of the oral session here:
ERE1.8 Orals: Wed, 26 Apr Room -2.16 Chairpersons: Carole Dalin, Matti Kummu
Schedule amendments in bold (due to some abstract withdrawals)
14:00–14:05 Session introduction (special issue open in ERL: Sustainable Food Systems Transformation https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/erl-230405-193)
14:05–14:15- EGU23-2393 - On-site presentation
Efficiency of dietary sustainability and its global transition
Pan He, Zhu Liu, Klaus Hubacek, Giovanni Baiocchi, and Dabo Guan
14:15–14:25 - EGU23-7963 - Virtual presentation
Healthier diets, healthier planet? Quantifying the biodiversity pressure of fruit and vegetable consumption in South Africa, India, and the UK
Abbie Chapman, Carole Dalin, Sara Bonetti, Rosemary Green, Genevieve Hadida, Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi, and Pauline Scheelbeek
14:25–14:30 Additional Questions & Answers
14:30–14:40 EGU23-11440 On-site presentation
The potential to increase resilience by replacing feed imports with domestic food system by-products
Vilma Sandström, Matti Kummu, and Florian Schwarzmueller
14:40–14:50 EGU23-15056 On-site presentation
Usage of by-products and residues of the food system in livestock diets leads to savings in global land and water resources
Camilla Govoni, Paolo D'Odorico, Luciano Pinotti, and Maria Cristina Rulli
14:50–14:55 Additional Questions & Answers
14:55 –15:05 - EGU23-16316 - On-site presentation
Cross-border environmental impacts of agri-food systems and potential solutions towards sustainability: a case study of trade between Europe and Africa.
Ertug Ercin, Brecht D’Haeyer, Corjan Nolet, Emrah Alkaya, Didem Mahsunlar, Tolga Pilevneli, and Goksen Capar
15:05–15:15 EGU23-5975 On-site presentation
Restructuring the Indian agricultural system toward sustainability and lower environmental costs
Udit Bhatia, Shekhar Goyal, and Rohini Kumar
15:15–15:25 EGU23-15582 On-site presentation
Sustainable agricultural strategies to address limited freshwater availability and meet food demand in the Nile River Basin
Martina Sardo, Maria Cristina Rulli, and Davide Danilo Chiarelli
15:25–15:35 EGU23-12478 On-site presentation
Tracing the water footprint of food losses the in trade network: the case of wheat
Francesco Semeria, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi, and Marta Tuninetti
15:35–15:45 Additional Questions & Answers
Coffee break
16:15–16:25 EGU23-1556 On-site presentation
Key trends and opportunities in water footprints of crop production
Oleksandr Mialyk, Martijn J. Booij, Rick J. Hogeboom, and Markus Berger
16:25–16:35 EGU23-6729 Virtual presentation
Understanding the interaction between maize water use efficiency and nutrient uptake in irrigated cropping systems, a basis for predicting and improving Zambia’s productivity in a changing climate
Mumba Mwape, Hami Said, Elijah Phiri, Maria Heiling, Gerd Dercon, and Christian Resch
16:35–16:45 EGU23-3940 On-site presentation
Sustainability trade-offs for equity and climate interventions in global food systems: The case of cocoa in Ghana
Sophia Carodenuto and Marshall Adams
16:45–16:50 Additional Questions & Answers
16:50–17:00 EGU23-15681Virtual presentation
Coffee Agrosystems and Climate Change
Raniero Della Peruta, Valentina Mereu, Donatella Spano, Serena Marras, and Antonio Trabucco
17:00–17:10 EGU23-15016 Virtual presentation A novel tool implementation to estimate the Land Use Sustainability for crops production under different climate change scenarios
Joan Miquel Galve, Jesús Garrido-Rubio, José González-Piqueras, Anna Osann, Alfonso Calera, Maria Llanos López, Esteban Henao, David Sánchez, Jesús Puchades, Antonio Jesús Molina, Christina Papadaskalopoulou, Marina Antoniadou, and Dimitris Tassopoulos
17:10–17:20 EGU23-6494 On-site presentation
Machine Learning-Enabled Smart Greenhouse Environmental Control Service Model
I-Wen Hsia and Fi-John Chang
17:20–17:30 EGU23-15686 Virtual presentation
Elucidating climate change adaptation potential of improved maize (Zea mays L.) varieties with crop modelling
Abel Chemura, Ponraj Arumugum, Eresi Kutesa Awori, and Christoph Gornott
17:30–17:40 EGU23-10063 On-site presentation
Risk of deforestation and potential greenhouse gas emissions from vegetable oils’ expansions for food use
Maria Vincenza Chiriacò, Nikolas Galli, Monia Santini, and Maria Cristina Rulli
17:40–17:50 EGU23-6434 On-site presentation
Energy and fertiliser price rises are more damaging than food export curtailment from Ukraine and Russia for food prices, health and the environment
Peter Alexander, Almut Arneth, Roslyn Henry, Juliette Maire, Sam Rabin, and Mark Rounsevell
17:50–17:55 Additional Questions & Answers