The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15544957 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chandan Kumar Jha (0000-0001-7095-3032, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, corresponding author), Vartika Singh (0000-0002-4896-7590, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad), Miodrag Stevanović (0000-0003-1799-186X, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Jan Philipp Dietrich (0000-0002-4309-6431, Leibniz Association), Aline Mosnier (0000-0001-8566-1593), Isabelle Weindl (0000-0002-7651-6930, Leibniz Association), Alexander Popp (0000-0001-9500-1986, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Guido Schmidt Traub, Ranjan Ghosh (0000-0002-8944-7436, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad), Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Hermann Lotze‐campen (0000-0002-0003-5508, Leibniz Association) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 074022-074022 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/ac788a |
| OpenAlex | W4282936851 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 44 |
The food and land use sector is a major contributor to India’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On one hand, India is committed to sustainability targets in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sectors, on the other, there is little clarity whether these objectives can align with national developmental priorities of food security and environmental protection. This study fills the gap by reviewing multiple corridors to sustain the AFOLU systems through an integrated assessment framework using partial equilibrium modeling. We create three pathways that combine the shared socio-economic pathways with alternative assumptions on diets and mitigation strategies. We analyze our results of the pathways on key indicators of land-use change, GHG emissions, food security, water withdrawals in agriculture, agricultural trade and production diversity. Our findings indicate that dietary shift, improved efficiency in livestock production systems, lower fertilizer use, and higher yield through sustainable intensification can reduce GHG emissions from the AFOLU sectors up to 80% by 2050. Dietary shifts could help meet EAT-Lancet recommended minimum calorie requirements alongside meeting mitigation ambitions. Further, water withdrawals in agriculture would reduce by half by 2050 in the presence of environmental flow protection and mitigation strategies. We conclude by pointing towards specific strategic policy design changes that would be essential to embark on such a sustainable pathway
Agriculture · Business · CLARITY · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Food processing · Food security · Food systems · Geography · Greenhouse gas · Land use · Natural resource economics · Sustainability · Sustainable agriculture · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Environmental Impact and Sustainability · Environmental Science · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |