Prompting food production to meet ever increasing human demand while limiting environmental impacts is critical for realizing food security, which is the major concern of SDG 2.4. This case focuses on three indicators referring to sustainable intensification (i.e., land productivity, fertilizer p...

Cropland intensification has great implications for global food security. Although global crop production has been doubled in recent decades by adopting high-yield varieties, yield stagnation has been observed recently in many places around the world, implying that crop yield is close to its pote...

Childhood stunting is one of the most important indicators for long-term malnutrition that accounts for nearly 45% of child deaths globally (Black et al., 2013). Improving the nutritional status of children has been recognised as a key component of "Healthy China", a strategic plan for national h...

The primary task of achieving zero hunger and eradicating poverty is to ensure adequate food, and one important means to ensure adequate food is to improve agricultural productivity. The production from small-scale farming operations is easily affected by agro-meteorological conditions, irrigatio...

Developing agriculture to ensure long-term food supply contributing to economic and social development, while minimizing environmental impacts is at the heart of the challenge. Quantitatively assessing the sustainability of agricultural systems is therefore critical and requires spatial and tempo...