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Climate change upsets agriculture

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Raising agricultural productivity has been essential for global food security and conserving land. Now, research quantifies how climate change has slowed agricultural productivity growth around the world.

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Fig. 1: World population, agricultural production, prices and cropland since 1900.

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Fuglie, K. Climate change upsets agriculture. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 294–295 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01017-6

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