
Reducing nutrient pollution in water systems in China: challenges, trends and solutions
Wang, M. (2020). PhD thesis, Wageningen University Intensive human activities in China have led to considerable nutrient losses to aquatic ecosystems, causing water pollution. This situation may worsen in the

Land tenure security, migration and farm performance in rural China
Ren, G. (2020). PhD thesis, Wageningen University. Land tenure security and migration play vital roles in rural development and livelihood security of rural households. Farm performance benefits not only a

Five priorities to operationalize the EAT-Lancet commission report
Béné, C., Fanzo, J., Haddad, L., Hawkes, C., Caron, P., Vermeulen, S., Herrero, M., Oosterveer, P. (2020) To operationalize the great food system transformation and ensure its sustainability, five areas

Feeding the melting pot: Inclusive strategies to feeding the city
Brons, A., Wertheim-Heck, S., Oosterveer, P. (2020) The need for a shift toward healthier and more sustainable diets is evident and is supported by universalized standards for a “planetary health

Transparency in global sustainability governance: To what effect?
Gupta, A., Boas, I., Oosterveer, P. (2020) Transparency in environmental governance is no longer an uncontroversial answer to problems of accountability and effectiveness. How to design effective transparency systems and

Farm size and smallholders’ use of intercropping in northwest China
Hong, Y., Heerink, N., van der Werf, W. (2020) Intercropping, i.e. the cultivation of crop species mixtures, can potentially reduce pressure on land resources by generating higher yields through exploitation

Spatial planning needed to drastically reduce nitrogen and phosphorus surpluses in China’s agriculture
Jin, X., Bai, Z., Oenema, O., Winiwarter, W., Velthof, G., Chen, X., Ma, L. (2020) China’s fertilization practices contribute greatly to the global biogeochemical nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) flows,

Global nutrient flows and cycling in food systems
Liu, Q., Wang, J., Hou, Y., van Dijk, K. C., Qin, W., Lesschen, J. P., Velthof, G. L., Oenema, O. (2020) Plants require 14 nutrient elements in specific amounts for

Do land markets improve land use efficiency? Evidence from Jiangsu, China
Liu, Z., Zhang, L., Rommel, J., Feng, S. (2020) Inefficient use of scarce and fragmented land challenges the sustainability of agriculture. Land markets may improve land-use efficiency. In recent years,

Towards agriculture green development
Oenema, O. (2020) The term Agriculture Green Development (AGD) was introduced by the 19th National Congress of China’s CPCC in 2017 as a name for the national strategy of sustainable