Promises and challenges for expanding the use N2-fixing cyanobacteria as a fertilizer for sustainable agriculture

AMBROSIO, RAFAEL; JIMENEZ PACHECO, HUGO GUILLERMO; CURATTI, LEONARDO; DO NASCIMENTO, MAURO; HERNANDEZ JOSE ANGEL; SANCHEZ RIZZA, LARA; MIRANDA RAMOS, LILIA MARY

Cyanobacterial Lifestyle and its Applications in Biotechnology

Academic Press - Elsevier

Año: 2021; p. 99 - 158

Food security, sustainable agriculture, and N-fertilizersThe Second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of United Nations ?Endhunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainableagriculture? by 2030 represents one of the most challengingtargets for Humanity of the present decade (Griggs, 2013; UN SDGs,2019). Although hunger declined steadily during the last decades, theglobal undernourishment trend reverted in 2015 and remained globallyat a level slightly below 11%. Dangerously, last year?s assessments showed...