Overcoming Food Security Challenges within an Energy/Water/Food Nexus (EWFN) Approach
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Overcoming Food Security Challenges within an Energy/Water/Food Nexus (EWFN) Approach
The challenge of feeding nine billion people by 2050, in a context of constrained resources and growing environmental pressures posed by current food production methods on one side, and changing lifestyles and consequent shifts in dietary patterns on the other, exacerbated by the effects of climate change, has been defined as one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. The first step to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sustainability
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su8010095