Kosfeld Fenna Thesis - Flipbook - Page 48
The bigger picture problem:
"need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to build
resilience in agriculture and urban development to climate change impacts"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2935117/
Decentralised Food System
Rising pressure on Agriculture with
increasing urbanisation
"Soil organic matter
content is reduced by
urbanisation, through
topsoil removal or disruption of
mineralisation rates
caused by sealing"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/
S2468584417300570#:~:text=Soil%20organic%20matter%20content%20is,et%20al.%2C%202018a).
Synthetic fertilisers imported from Belarus,
Russia, USA, Morocco ect.
(for varous minerals)
Mineral dependency=political dependency
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Increase of prices of fertilisers has led
farmers to buy and use lower quantities of
fertilisers on their crops - leading to soil
degradation and further environemtnal
problems
urban
