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Food and Sustainable Earth

Food and Sustainable Earth

This is an article collection published in Sustainable Earth.

This article collection is dedicated to the multifaceted issues of food production and consumption and their impacts on the planet, including the health of its inhabitants, ecosystems and atmosphere.​​​​​​​

Food is essential to all life forms on this planet – we cannot survive without it. However, the current food production and consumption patterns developed to feed the human population pose serious threats to other species and generate risks that impact on available resources in our near future. They have significant implications on climate change, land and water use, air and soil pollution as well as antimicrobial resistance. This should worry us all. There are many issues impacting food sustainability that need to be explored and discussed, ranging from social, environmental, economic, ethical, biological and health factors – and everything in between. Sustainable Earth recognizes that it can serve as an important platform for such explorations and discussions.

Edited by: Dora Marinova

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Published articles in this collection:

  1. Human movements via migrations facilitate the transport of plants and knowledge. Migrations were always present in our human history, but conflicts and environmental changes are contributing to the increase in...

    Authors: Natalia Hanazaki, Andrea Pieroni, Rafaela Helena Ludwinsky, Maiara Cristina Gonçalves, Julia Prakofjewa, Nivaldo Peroni and Renata Soukand
    Citation: Sustainable Earth Reviews 2023 6:9
  2. Growing population and affluence coupled with climate change puts pressure on the supply of food, water and energy. The three are interconnected, conceptualised in the food-energy-water nexus. In this article,...

    Authors: Thomas Parker and Maria Svantemark
    Citation: Sustainable Earth 2019 2:7
  3. With an annual meat consumption of 110 kg per capita, Australia is one of the top countries in the world according to this indicator. High meat consumption however is associated with adverse impacts on the pla...

    Authors: Dora Marinova and Diana Bogueva
    Citation: Sustainable Earth 2019 2:3