Opportunities and challenges organo-mineral fertiliser can play in enabling food security

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dc.contributor.authorSakrabani, Ruben
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-18T16:41:01Z
dc.date.available2024-03-18T16:41:01Z
dc.date.freetoread2024-03-18
dc.date.issued2024-03-01
dc.date.pubOnline2024-03-01
dc.description.abstractFood security is a growing challenge related to an increasing global population. The agricultural sector is key for a secure supply of food but relies up to 50% on mineral fertilisers to meet crop nutrient demands. As mineral fertilisers production is energy intensive, causing close to 2% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, this poses greater challenge to meet net zero targets. Other challenges include extreme weather patterns, GHG during fertiliser applications and diffuse pollution, declining soil health, pest, disease, and loss of soil biodiversity. As mineral fertilisers’ price increases and the state of soil health decreases, innovative solutions are needed to meet crop nutrient demands while ensuring that sufficient organic matter is conserved in the soil. One solution to achieve net zero in agriculture can be in the form of organo-mineral fertilisers (OMF). OMFs are a new concept that take organic feedstock (such as biosolids, livestock manure, crop residues, food waste) and combines them with reduced amounts of mineral fertilisers resulting in a balanced fertiliser product. This Perspective piece discusses a Strength-Weakness-Opportunities-Threats (SWOT) analysis on OMF and summarizes how OMF applications can play a role to improve food security. This is further linked with short, medium and long terms policy interventions that can be deployed to achieve a more sustainable approach by balancing between protecting the wider environment and meeting food security.en_UK
dc.description.journalNameFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author would like to acknowledge funding received from UKRI Innovate UK Defra Farming Innovation Programme (10026016). The policy aspect of this work was carried out as part of a separate project that received the Research England Policy Support Fund.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationSakrabani R. (2024) Opportunities and challenges organo-mineral fertiliser can play in enabling food security. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Volume 8, March 2024, Article number 1296351en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2571-581X
dc.identifier.paperNo1296351
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1296351
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/21031
dc.identifier.volumeNo8
dc.language.isoen_UKen_UK
dc.publisherFrontiersen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectNet zeroen_UK
dc.subjectcircular economyen_UK
dc.subjectfertiliseren_UK
dc.subjectorganic amendmentsen_UK
dc.subjectfood securityen_UK
dc.subjectagricultureen_UK
dc.titleOpportunities and challenges organo-mineral fertiliser can play in enabling food securityen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-02-07

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