Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries
Campbell, Bruce M., Beare, Douglas J., Bennett, Elena M., Hall-spencer, Jason M., Ingram, John S.I., Jaramillo, Fernando, Ortiz, Rodomiro, Ramankutty, Navin, Sayer, Jeffrey A., and Shindell, Drew (2017) Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries. Ecology and Society, 22 (4).
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Abstract
We explore the role of agriculture in destabilizing the Earth system at the planetary scale, through examining nine planetary boundaries, or "safe limits": land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows, biosphere integrity, climate change, ocean acidification, stratospheric ozone depletion, atmospheric aerosol loading, and introduction of novel entities. Two planetary boundaries have been fully transgressed, i.e., are at high risk, biosphere integrity and biogeochemical flows, and agriculture has been the major driver of the transgression. Three are in a zone of uncertainty i.e., at increasing risk, with agriculture the major driver of two of those, land-system change and freshwater use, and a significant contributor to the third, climate change. Agriculture is also a significant or major contributor to change for many of those planetary boundaries still in the safe zone. To reduce the role of agriculture in transgressing planetary boundaries, many interventions will be needed, including those in broader food systems.
| Item ID: | 52153 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1708-3087 |
| Keywords: | aerosol loading, biogeochemical flows, biosphere integrity, chemical pollution, climate change, diversity, freshwater, land-system change, nitrogen, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, phosphorous |
| Additional Information: | This article is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. You may share and adapt the work for noncommercial purposes provided the original author and source are credited, you indicate whether any changes were made, and you include a link to the license. |
| Funders: | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2018 07:37 |
| FoR Codes: | 30 AGRICULTURAL, VETERINARY AND FOOD SCIENCES > 3002 Agriculture, land and farm management > 300210 Sustainable agricultural development @ 100% |
| SEO Codes: | 82 PLANT PRODUCTION AND PLANT PRIMARY PRODUCTS > 8299 Other Plant Production and Plant Primary Products > 829999 Plant Production and Plant Primary Products not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
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