Agricultural trade impacts global phosphorus use and partial productivity

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The spatio-temporal distribution, flow and end use of phosphorus (P) embedded in traded agricultural products are poorly understood. Here we use global trade matrices to analyse the partial factor productivity of P (output per unit of P input) for crop and livestock products in 200 countries and their cumulative contributions to the export or import of agricultural products over 1961-2019. In these six decades, the trade of agricultural P products has increased global partial factor productivity for crop and livestock production and has theoretically saved 67 Tg P in fertilizers and 1.6 Tg P in feed. However, trade is now at risk of contributing to wasteful use of P resources globally due to a decline in trade optimality, as agricultural products are increasingly exported from low to high partial factor productivity countries and due to P embedded in imported agricultural products mainly lost to the environment without recycling. Integrated crop-livestock production systems and P-recycling technologies can help.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:4

Enthalten in:

Nature food - 4(2023), 9 vom: 07. Sept., Seite 762-773

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bai, Zhaohai [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Obersteiner, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Mosnier, Aline [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xinping [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Zengwei [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Lin [VerfasserIn]

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27YLU75U4W
Journal Article
Phosphorus
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 25.09.2023

Date Revised 29.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s43016-023-00822-w

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NLM36050194X