New publications in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources
ASI and SAREP staff and affiliated UC Davis faculty have recently published two new articles in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
The Annual Review of Environment and Resources provides a complimentary
one-time access to each article as a PDF, downloadable from their website.
Agroecology: A Review from a Global-Change Perspective
Tom Tomich, Sonja Brodt, Kate Scow, and affiliated UC Davis faculty formed a
multidisciplinary team to map key components of agroecology. The
article conceptualizes the future of agroecology as a discipline and
seeks to identify forward-looking scientific questions to enhance the
relevance of agroecology for the key challenges of mitigating
environmental impacts of agriculture while dramatically increasing
global food production, improving livelihoods, and thereby reducing
chronic hunger and malnutrition over the coming decades.
Energy Intensity of Agriculture and Food Systems
SAREP's Sonja Brodt is a contributing author for a new article in the
Annual Review of Environment and Resources. The relationships between
energy use in food systems, food system productivity,
and energy resource constraints are complex. Moreover, ongoing changes
in food
production and consumption norms concurrent with urbanization,
globalization,
and demographic changes underscore the importance of energy use in food
systems
as a food security concern. The article reviews the current state of
knowledge with
respect to the energy intensity of agriculture and food systems and
highlights
key drivers and trends in food system energy use along with
opportunities for
and constraints on improved efficiencies.
