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2022-06-28Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/24936
The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets
dc.contributor.authorJha, Chandan Kumar
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Vartika
dc.contributor.authorStevanović, Miodrag
dc.contributor.authorDietrich, Philipp
dc.contributor.authorMosnier, Aline
dc.contributor.authorWeindl, Isabelle
dc.contributor.authorPopp, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt-Traub, Guido
dc.contributor.authorGhosh, Ranjan Kumar
dc.contributor.authorLotze-Campen, Hermann
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-05T13:21:06Z
dc.date.available2022-07-05T13:21:06Z
dc.date.issued2022-06-28none
dc.date.updated2022-06-30T03:12:04Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/25617
dc.description.abstractThe 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 cstrategic policy design changes that would be essential to embark on such a sustainable pathway.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipNorway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights(CC BY 4.0) Attribution 4.0 Internationalger
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectSSPseng
dc.subjectfood securityeng
dc.subjectagricultural productivityeng
dc.subjectSDGseng
dc.subjectclimate changeeng
dc.subjectmitigationeng
dc.subjectEAT-Lanceteng
dc.subject.ddc630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereichenone
dc.titleThe role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targetsnone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/25617-8
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/24936
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.pages11none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone
dc.identifier.eissn1748-9326
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1088/1748-9326/ac788anone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleEnvironmental research lettersnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume17none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue7none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber074022none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameIOP Publ.none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBristolnone
bua.departmentLebenswissenschaftliche Fakultätnone

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