A novel seasonal-spatial integrated model for improving the economic-environmental performance of crop production.

ABSTRACT: Excess agricultural nitrogen, mainly from manure and chemical fertilizers, is a primary source of nutrient pollution and presents serious environmental threats to natural ecosystems and human health. Improvements in nitrogen-use efficiency in crop production are critical for addressing the triple challenge of food insecurity, environmental degradation, and climate change. Approaches such as sustainable intensification that stress technological innovations have received the most attention. But science-based cropland use planning, a promising complementary approach, has so far been largely overlooked. Here we develop a spatially integrated economic-ecological modeling method to assess this previously unexplored potential for improving the economic-environmental performance of crop production

SUBMITTER: Li M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9672484 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature