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Mitigating nitrogen pollution from global croplands with cost-effective measures

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Gu,  Baojing
External Organizations;

Zhang,  Xiuming
External Organizations;

Lam,  Shu
External Organizations;

Yu,  Yingliang
External Organizations;

van Grinsven,  Hans
External Organizations;

Zhang,  Shaohui
External Organizations;

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Wang,  Xiaoxi
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

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Bodirsky,  Benjamin Leon
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

Wang,  Sitong
External Organizations;

Duan,  Jiakun
External Organizations;

Bouwman,  Alexander
External Organizations;

de Vries,  Wim
External Organizations;

Xu,  Jianming
External Organizations;

Sutton,  Marc A.
External Organizations;

Chen,  Deli
External Organizations;

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Gu, B., Zhang, X., Lam, S., Yu, Y., van Grinsven, H., Zhang, S., Wang, X., Bodirsky, B. L., Wang, S., Duan, J., Bouwman, A., de Vries, W., Xu, J., Sutton, M. A., Chen, D. (2023): Mitigating nitrogen pollution from global croplands with cost-effective measures. - Nature, 613, 77-84.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05481-8


Zitierlink: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_27487
Zusammenfassung
Cropland is a main source of global nitrogen pollution1,2. Mitigating nitrogen pollution from global croplands is a grand challenge because of the nature of non-point-source pollution from millions of farms and the constraints to implementing pollution-reduction measures, such as lack of financial resources and limited nitrogen-management knowledge of farmers3. Here we synthesize 1,521 field observations worldwide and identify 11 key measures that can reduce nitrogen losses from croplands to air and water by 30–70%, while increasing crop yield and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) by 10–30% and 10–80%, respectively. Overall, adoption of this package of measures on global croplands would allow the production of 17 ± 3 Tg (1012 g) more crop nitrogen (20% increase) with 22 ± 4 Tg less nitrogen fertilizer used (21% reduction) and 26 ± 5 Tg less nitrogen pollution (32% reduction) to the environment for the considered base year of 2015. These changes could gain a global societal benefit of 476 ± 123 billion US dollars (USD) for food supply, human health, ecosystems and climate, with net mitigation costs of only 19 ± 5 billion USD, of which 15 ± 4 billion USD fertilizer saving offsets 44% of the gross mitigation cost. To mitigate nitrogen pollution from croplands in the future, innovative policies such as a nitrogen credit system (NCS) could be implemented to select, incentivize and, where necessary, subsidize the adoption of these measures.