Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture

作者：Yi Yang, David Tilman, Zhenong Jin, Pete Smith, Christopher B. Barrett, Yong‐Guan Zhu, Jennifer Burney, Paolo D’Odorico, Peter Fantke, Joseph Fargione, Jacques C. Finlay, Maria Cristina Rulli, Lindsey Sloat, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Paul West, Lewis H. Ziska, A. M. Michalak, the Clim-Ag Team, David B. Lobell, Michael Clark, Jed B. Colquhoun, Teevrat Garg, Karen A. Garrett, Camilla Geels, Rebecca R. Hernandez, Mario Herrero, W. D. Hutchison, Meha Jain, Jacob M. Jungers, Beibei Liu, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Ariel Ortiz Bobea, Jacob Schewe, Jie Song, Julie Verheyen, Peter M. Vitousek, Yoshihide Wada, Longlong Xia, X. Zhang, Minghao Zhuang · 发表于：Science · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1126/science.adn3747 · 被引用次数：481 · 研究领域：Climate change impacts on agriculture、Plant responses to elevated CO2、Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact

Agriculture's global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding, driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights climate change as an additional amplifier of agriculture's environmental impacts, by reducing agricultural productivity, reducing the efficacy of agrochemicals, increasing soil erosion, accelerating the growth and expanding the range of crop diseases and pests, and increasing land clearing. We identify multiple pathways through which climate change intensifies agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, creating a potentially powerful climate change-reinforcing feedback loop. The challenges raised by climate change underscore the urgent need to transition to sustainable, climate-resilient agricultural systems. This requires investments that both accelerate adoption of proven solutions that provide multiple benefits, and that discover and scale new beneficial processes and food products.