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Climate change responses benefit from a global food system approach

A food system framework breaks down entrenched sectoral categories and existing adaptation and mitigation silos, presenting novel ways of assessing and enabling integrated climate change solutions from production to consumption.

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Fig. 1: Mitigation, adaptation and co-benefits of food system responses.

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Rosenzweig, C., Mbow, C., Barioni, L.G. et al. Climate change responses benefit from a global food system approach. Nat Food 1, 94–97 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-0031-z

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