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  The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets

Jha, C. K., Singh, V., Stevanović, M., Dietrich, J. P., Mosnier, A., Weindl, I., Popp, A., Traub, G. S., Ghosh, R. K., Lotze-Campen, H. (2022): The role of food and land use systems in achieving India’s sustainability targets. - Environmental Research Letters, 17, 7, 074022.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac788a

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Jha, Chandan Kumar1, Author
Singh, Vartika1, Author
Stevanović, Miodrag2, Author              
Dietrich, Jan Philipp2, Author              
Mosnier, Aline1, Author
Weindl, Isabelle2, Author              
Popp, Alexander2, Author              
Traub, Guido Schmidt1, Author
Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar1, Author
Lotze-Campen, Hermann2, Author              
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 Abstract: The 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.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2022-06-142022-06-282022-07
 Publication Status: Finally published
 Pages: 11
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac788a
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PIKDOMAIN: RD3 - Transformation Pathways
Organisational keyword: RD3 - Transformation Pathways
Research topic keyword: Food & Agriculture
Research topic keyword: Land use
Research topic keyword: Mitigation
Research topic keyword: Sustainable Development
Regional keyword: Asia
Model / method: MAgPIE
OATYPE: Gold Open Access
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Title: Environmental Research Letters
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 17 (7) Sequence Number: 074022 Start / End Page: - Identifier: CoNE: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/150326
Publisher: IOP Publishing