Getting caught with our plants down: the risks of a global crop yield slowdown from climate trends in the next two decades

In many discussions of climate change impacts in agriculture, the large magnitudes of expected impacts toward the end of the century are used to emphasize that most of the risks are to future generations. However, this perspective misses the important fact that demand growth for food is expected to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David B Lobell, Claudia Tebaldi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074003