Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

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Year: 2018
Type: article
Volume: 562
Issue: 7728
Pages: 519-525
Citations: 2976
Access: Closed

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                                    Marco Springmann, 
                                
                                    Michael Clark, 
                                
                                    Daniel Mason-D’Croz
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2018). 
                            Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits. 
                            Nature
                            , 562
                            (7728)
                            , 519-525.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0594-0
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0594-0