Understanding the capacity of agricultural systems to feed the world population under
climate change requires projecting future food demand. This article reviews demand …

Recent studies assessing plausible futures for agricultural markets and global food security
have had contradictory outcomes. To advance our understanding of the sources of the …

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is a major cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity. A
complex and dynamic interaction of maternal, placental and fetal environment is involved in …

In the future, the land system will be facing new intersecting challenges. While food demand,
especially for resource-intensive livestock based commodities, is expected to increase, the …

Thirty years after oxygen isotope records from microfossils deposited in ocean sediments
confirmed the hypothesis that variations in the Earth's orbital geometry control the ice ages …

Agricultural production is sensitive to weather and thus directly affected by climate change.
Plausible estimates of these climate change impacts require combined use of climate, crop …

Background Pre-eclampsia is a leading cause of maternal deaths. These deaths mainly
result from eclampsia, uncontrolled hypertension, or systemic inflammation. We developed …

Food insecurity can be directly exacerbated by climate change due to crop-production-
related impacts of warmer and drier conditions that are expected in important agricultural …

Five new scenarios, or Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), have been developed,
spanning a range of challenges to mitigation and challenges to adaptation. The Shared …

Energy is crucial for supporting basic human needs, development and well-being. The future
evolution of the scale and character of the energy system will be fundamentally shaped by …