Improving future agricultural sustainability by optimizing crop distributions in China.

ABSTRACT: Improving agricultural sustainability is a global challenge, particularly for China's high-input and low-efficiency cropping systems with environmental tradeoffs. Although national strategies have been implemented to achieve Sustainable Development Goals in agriculture, the potential contributions of crop switching as a promising solution under varying future climate change are still under-explored. Here, we optimize cropping patterns spatially with the targets of enhancing agriculture production, reducing environmental burdens, and achieving sustainable fertilization across different climate scenarios. Compared with current cropping patterns, the optimal crop distributions under different climate scenarios consistently suggest allocating the planting areas of maize and rapeseed to the oth

SUBMITTER: Guan Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11705388 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature