Addressing the contribution of agricultural systems to the phosphorus pollution challenge: a multi-dimensional perspective

The intensification of agricultural systems has increased the food production efficiency, increasing productivity while costs are reduced. Although these factors key to global security in a context continued human population growth, use intensive techniques results different environmental issues. Mitigating negative impacts is requirement for adopting sustainable systems. Notably, nutrient pollution one main issues associated with both livestock and crop production. These activities result point non-point source releases phosphorus, which eventually reach surface ground waterbodies. This might accumulation phosphorus over time, contributing eutrophication water ecosystems, development harmful algal bloom (HABs) episodes. nutrients from can be abated through management strategies, including implementation recovery at facilities, embracing precision fertilization methods, developing integrated crop-livestock achieving circular In this work, we describe opportunities Process System Engineering (PSE) address mitigating balancing trade-offs between cost impact mitigation. integrate spatial analysis agriculture using geographical information (GIS) assessment selection combining techno-economic (TEA) metrics multi-criteria decision (MCDA) frameworks, mathematical programming conceptual design