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Climate change and agriculture

Prof Stephen Sitch describes the relationship between agriculture and climate change.

Here, Prof Stephen Sitch describes how agriculture contributes towards to climate change and how agriculture itself is impacted by climate change in terms of future crop and pest distributions.

In the next article we consider how we can use ‘Climate Smart’ agriculture to reduce the environmental impact from agriculture whilst increasing productivity.

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Future Food: Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century

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