A half-century of global phosphorus flows, stocks, production, consumption, recycling, and environmental impacts

[Display omitted] •From 1961 to 2013, global phosphorus consumption increased fivefold.•Only about 22% of the extracted phosphorus is actually consumed as human food.•On-farm wastes have yielded to manufactured fertilizers as the primary source of phosphorus.•Non-food uses of phosphorus were about f...

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