Zhenling Cui

Jan 24, 2025 | nature.com | Zhenling Cui

AbstractSustainable phosphorus (P) management is essential for ensuring crop production while avoiding environmental damage and the depletion of phosphate rock reserves. Despite local demonstration scale successes, the widespread mobilization of smallholder farmers to adopt sustainable management practices remains a challenge, primarily due to the associated high costs and complicated sampling.

Jul 9, 2024 | nature.com | Hao Zhao |Zhaohai Bai |Lin Ma |Zhenling Cui |Juraj Balkovic |Mario Herrero | +1 more

AbstractChina’s imports of livestock feed, particularly protein-rich feeds, pose challenges to global environmental sustainability. Achieving protein self-sufficiency for food and feed in China without exceeding environmental boundaries requires integrated measures and optimization of China’s food system.

May 8, 2024 | nature.com | Zhenling Cui

Management practices including augmenting the ratio of organic to chemical fertilizers, implementing deep application techniques and reintegrating straw into fields can bolster food production while optimizing resource use efficiency and abating nitrogen pollution in China.

Jan 2, 2024 | nature.com | Zhenling Cui

Redesigning crop management practices for climate, crop and soil co-optimization has great potential to maintain high yields, mitigate social and environmental impacts, and support sustainable agricultural intensification. Now writing in Nature Food, Xiao et al.4 explore this question in the North China Plain — the ‘food bowl’ of China.