Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food-energy-water-CO₂ nexus across metacoupled systems.

ABSTRACT: Irrigated agriculture has important implications for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, there is a lack of systematic and quantitative analyses of its impacts on food-energy-water-CO₂ nexus. Here we studied impacts of irrigated agriculture on food-energy-water-CO₂ nexus across food sending systems (the North China Plain (NCP)), food receiving systems (the rest of China) and spillover systems (Hubei Province, affected by interactions between sending and receiving systems), using life cycle assessment, model scenarios, and the framework of metacoupling (socioeconomic-environmental interactions within and across borders). Results indicated that food supply from the NCP promoted food sustainability in the rest of China, but the NCP consum

SUBMITTER: Xu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7672069 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature