support from community health service centers in Xicheng and Daxing Districts,Beijing;support from Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Zhejiang;Provincial Patriotic Health and Health Promotion Center in Jiangxi;Provincial Health Education Center in Chongqing,Liaoning and Gansu.
What is already known about this topic?The proportion of elderly living alone in China is approximately 10%.Living away from family poses enormous challenges for older adults.What is added by this report?Compared to t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32271541);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFD1200701);Key Project of Maize Germplasm Improvement(2022010202,B21HJ0509);supported by Pinduoduo-China Agricultural University Research Fund(PC2023A01004)。
As the global human population continues to grow and is predicted to reach 10 billion by 2050,the demand for food volume and quality raises a tremendous challenge(OECD/FAO,2017).The worldwide arable land area is decre...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42171230)。
Food systems are already a major contributor to land degradation,and changes in global diets will exacerbate this situation[1].Population growth and affluent dietary patterns result in changes in land demand and land-...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42271396);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2022MD017);the Key R&D Project of Hebei Province(22326406D);The European Space Agency(ESA)and Ministry of Science and Technology of China(MOST)Dragon(57457).
Cereal is an essential source of calories and protein for the global population.Accurately predicting cereal quality before harvest is highly desirable in order to optimise management for farmers,grading harvest and c...
China feeds a fifth of the world’s population from only one tenth of the world’s arable land.The need to feed its population has always been a concern of China’s rulers.As early as the Tang(618-907)and Song(960-127...
The soil environment is a reservoir of nutrients as well as pollutants,and because of this,most of our food items are ladened with lots of pollutants ranging from fertilizers,pesticides,herbicides to heavy metals(HM)....
Along with the increase in the population,the requirements for increased human food and animal feed production have been boosted worldwide.Such an urgent food demand requires more arable land for crop productions.To c...
MOA and JS were financially supported by the Nutrisk project(European Regional Development Fund−Project No.CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000845).
The fertility of human-altered soils,Anthrosols,developed from past settlement activities for crop production is scarcely studied.The study evaluated the fertility of Anthrosols developed from the 15th to mid-20th cen...
supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020YFE0202300);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31961133002);Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB27010000);Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2018HH0160).
In China,19%of agricultural soils contain harmful heavy metal pollutants at levels exceeding environmentally recommended standards,whilst around 3 million hectares of arable land are too polluted to grow crops on(Zhao...
Farmer Yang Haijun said he had been noticing significant changes to the once fertile black soil on his family land for more than a decade.Yang,in his late 40s,lives in Shengli,Hailun City in Heilongjiang Province,part...