Crop harvests for direct food use insufficient to meet the UN’s food security goal
| Author(s) | Ray, Deepak K. | |
| Author(s) | Sloat, Lindsey L. | |
| Author(s) | Garcia, Andrea S. | |
| Author(s) | Davis, Kyle F. | |
| Author(s) | Ali, Tariq | |
| Author(s) | Xie, Wei | |
| Date Accessioned | 2022-06-24T18:38:08Z | |
| Date Available | 2022-06-24T18:38:08Z | |
| Publication Date | 2022-05-12 | |
| Description | This article was originally published in Nature Food. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00504-z | en_US |
| Abstract | Rising competition for crop usage presents policy challenges exacerbated by poor understanding of where crops are harvested for various uses. Here we create high-resolution global maps showing where crops are harvested for seven broad use categories—food, feed, processing, export, industrial, seed and losses. Yields for food crops are low relative to other crop-use categories. It is unlikely, given current trends, that the minimum calorie requirement to eliminate projected food undernourishment by 2030 will be met through crops harvested for direct food consumption, although enough calories will be harvested across all usages. Sub-Saharan African nations will probably fall short of feeding their increased population and eliminating undernourishment in 2030, even if all harvested calories are used directly as food. | en_US |
| Sponsor | The University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment supported D.K.R. and provided the open access publication fees. A.S.G. was supported by grants 2015/05103-8 and 2017/12787-6 from FAPESP, Brazil. K.F.D. was supported by the University of Delaware General University Research fund. W.X. was supported by grants 71873009 and 71922002 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. We thank the reviewers for their constructive feedback. Country and subnational boundaries are from GADM (https://gadm.org). | en_US |
| Citation | Ray, D.K., Sloat, L.L., Garcia, A.S. et al. Crop harvests for direct food use insufficient to meet the UN’s food security goal. Nat Food 3, 367–374 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00504-z | en_US |
| ISSN | 2662-1355 | |
| URL | https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/31030 | |
| Language | en_US | en_US |
| Publisher | Nature Food | en_US |
| Title | Crop harvests for direct food use insufficient to meet the UN’s food security goal | en_US |
| Type | Article | en_US |
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