摘要
The fast-growing world population exerts great pressure on the land to produce enough nutritious food. It is projectedthat global population will be 50% greater than at present by 2050 and the demand for global grain will havedoubled[1]. The pressure further intensifies with the stresses resulting from climate change, associated extremeweather[2], and expansion of urbanization. Humanity has already transgressed three of the nine interlinked planetaryboundaries, and agriculture is the major driving force behind this development^1. The agricultural system must betransformed to simultaneously provide global food security and environmental integrity[4]. To address thesechallenges, sustainability in agriculture must be enhanced13,51. This is particularly true for rapidly developingcountries such as China. While intensive, industrial agriculture achieved enormous successes, such as feeding 20%of the global population by producing 25% of the world’s grain with less than 10% of world arable land, theseachievements came at the expense of low resource use efficiency and environmental problems such as airpollution161, water pollution171, and soil acidification[8]. Agriculture in China is facing unprecedented challenges.
基金
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31872182)
the National Key Research and DevelopmentProgram of China (2016YFE0101100)
the Swiss National Science Foundation through the 2015-2016 BiodivERsA COFUND call (31BD30-172466 and31003A-166079).
