Input triad dependence

Updated: 2025.08.18 6M ago 1 sources
Because agriculture depends on key inputs, resilience planning must protect them. Reliance on synthetic nitrogen, large-scale irrigation, and crop genetics ties food security to energy prices, water governance, and biotech regulation, exposing systemic risk to shocks. — It guides climate, water, and biotech policy by highlighting chokepoints whose disruption could reverse global nutrition gains.

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Breakfast for Eight Billion
2025.08.18 100% relevant
The article identifies fertilization, irrigation, and genetics as the three practices enabling global food abundance.
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