How could agricultural land systems contribute to raise food production under Global change?
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To feed the increasing world population, more food needs to be produced from agricultural land systems. Solutions to produce more food with fewer resources while minimizing adverse environmental and ecological consequences require sustainable agricultural land use practices as supplementary to advanced biotechnology and agronomy. This review paper, from a land system perspective, systematically proposed and analyzed three interactive strategies that could possibly raise future food production under global change. By reviewing the current literatures, we suggest that cropland expansion is less possible amid fierce land competition, and it is likely to do less in increasing food production. Moreover, properly allocating crops in space and time is a practical way to ensure food production. Climate change, dietary shifts, and other socio-economic drivers, which would shape the demand and supply side of food systems, should be taken into consideration during the decision-making on rational land management in respect of sustainable crop choice and allocation. And finally, crop-specific agricultural intensification would play a bigger role in raising future food production either by increasing the yield per unit area of individual crops or by increasing the number of crops sown on a particular area of land. Yet, only when it is done sustainably is this a much more effective strategy to maximize food production by closing yield and harvest gaps.
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It is viable in many regions to intensify cropping by expanding current multiple cropping areas, growing biofuel crops during fallow season, or bringing back previous abandoned multiple cropping.
“It is viable in many regions to intensify cropping by expanding current multiple cropping areas [56,106], growing biofuel crops during fallow season [107,108] or bringing back previous abandoned multiple cropping (which was converted to lower intensity because of high farming cost or other reasons) [56,109].”
From Biomass and biofuels in China: Toward bioenergy resource potentials and their impacts on the environment (2018) · cites this paper as [109]
These practices will help to close the harvest gap between the actual production and potential production.
“These practices will help to close”
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- Authors
- WU, W.-B., YU, Q.-Y., Peter, V. H., YOU, L.-Z., YANG, P., & TANG, H.-J.
- Affiliations
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning (CN)
- ORCID
- YANG, Peng
- Venue
- Journal of Integrative Agriculture
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-07
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1432-1442
- ISSN
- 2095-3119 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2130632110
- Cited by
- 98
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 3 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 3.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Integrative Agriculture (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- IFPRI E-brary (International Food Policy Research Institute) (submittedVersion)
- CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (International Food Policy Research Institute) (submittedVersion)
- Journal of Integrative Agriculture
- Funders
- Royal Society
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (41271112)
- Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (2010CB951504)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Keywords
- agricultural land system, food production, global change, cropland expansion, land use competition, crop allocation, crop selection, climate change, dietary change, food supply and demand, sustainable land management, agricultural intensification, yield gap
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