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

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dc.creatorJha, Chandan Kumar
dc.creatorSingh, Vartika
dc.creatorStevanović, Miodrag
dc.creatorDietrich, Jan Philipp
dc.creatorMosnier, Aline
dc.date2022-07-01
dc.date2024-04-12T13:37:28Z
dc.date2024-04-12T13:37:28Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:37:16Z
dc.descriptionThe 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.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/141213
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/109671
dc.languageen
dc.publisherIOP Publishing
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceJha, Chandan Kumar; Singh, Vartika; Stevanović, Miodrag; Dietrich, Jan Philipp; Mosnier, Aline; et al. 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
dc.subjectfoods
dc.subjectsustainable development goals
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectland use
dc.subjectproductivity
dc.subjectsystems
dc.subjectclimate change mitigation
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.titleThe role of food and land use systems in achieving India's sustainability targets
dc.typeJournal Article

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