The final report from the international consortium project "Delivering Food Security on Limited Land" highlights the need for sustainable intensification, lower consumption of livestock products, and waste reduction by 50% to be able to provide food and nutrition security on limited land area and poor soil quality.
The international consortium Delivering Food Security on Limited Land strived to examine feedbacks and interactions between land use change and food security dynamics. The project was supported by national funding bodies, coordinated through the Belmont Forum and the FACCE-JPI Initiative. The ETH Zurich World Food System Center (WFSC), with Prof. Nina Buchmann as Principal Investigator, led the stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange activities for the consortium.
In the final report of the project to the Swiss National Science Foundation, the main results and WFSC contributions were highlighted. The project, with its many collaborators, concluded that food and nutrition security cannot be achieved under current soil management regimes when global population increases as projected. However, a combination of three elements, i.e. sustainable intensification, lower consumption of livestock products, and waste reduction by 50% of current levels, is indeed able to provide food and nutrition security on limited land area and poor soil quality.
