Editorial: Ecological Nutrient Management as a pathway to Zero Hunger

against drought and ﬂooding. Minimizing losses of N and P directly improves land and soil quality by maintaining nutrient stocks in soils, and indirectly increases the resilience of agricultural practices by increasing the efficiency of nutrient inputs and reducing pollution of surrounding ecosystems. Maximizing agroecosystems’ capacity to take up soluble N and P directly improves land and soil quality via nutrient storage and increased productivity, and indirectly supports climate change adaptation by reducing farmers’ reliance on expensive, non-renewable inputs. Increasing species and functional diversity to recouple C with nutrient cycles directly maintains or increases crop diversity, and indirectly increases resilience by increasing productivity, buffering against market shocks, and increasing the capacity for adaptation to climate change. Using mass balances to track net nutrient stocks and ﬂows directly improves land and soil quality by reducing nutrient surpluses and identifying deﬁcits; it also indirectly increases farmer knowledge that improves management practices.