Future of the Environment

Our food system is at risk of crossing ‘environmental limits’. Here’s how to ease the pressure

Agricultural farm land is shown near the Salton Sea and the town of Calipatria in California May 31, 2015. California is enduring its worst drought on record.  REUTERS/Mike Blake  - GF10000113719

The planet can only take so much. Image: REUTERS/Mike Blake

Marco Springmann
Senior Researcher, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, University of Oxford
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