Life's bottleneck: Sustaining the world's phosphorus for a food secure future

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 161-188

  Cordell, Dana ^a   White, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Global food security; Phosphorus scarcity; Phosphorus security; Sustainable food system

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FOOD SUPPLY; PHOSPHORUS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

FOOD SYSTEM; FRESHWATER BODIES; GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY; INTEGRATED SYNTHESIS; NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES;

PHOSPHATE FERTILIZERS;

EID: 84908054043     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-010213-113300     Document Type: Review

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