The role of nitrogen in world food production and environmental sustainability

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• Food and Agricultural Organization 92%
• environmental sustainability 88%
• farming system 87%
• food production 85%
• developing world 69%
• nitrogen 48%
• world 46%
• land degradation 45%
• arable land 45%
• loss 42%
• tropical forest 40%
• agriculture 28%
• productivity 27%
• food 27%
• land use 26%
• demand 26%
• policy 24%
• soil 17%

Agriculture & Biology

• environmental sustainability 100%
• food production 80%
• developing countries 77%
• forest clearing 61%
• land degradation 57%
• soil productivity 52%
• nitrogen 46%
• arable soils 46%
• tropical forests 42%
• land use 39%
• agriculture 29%