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Strategies for food system sustainability in China

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For the food system of China and its individual provinces to stay within downscaled planetary boundaries, sustainability strategies must combine demand, production, and redistribution interventions to meet targets for greenhouse gas emissions, water use, land use, and nutrient inputs.

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    Dana Boyer

  2. Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

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Boyer, D. Strategies for food system sustainability in China. Nat Food 1, 533–534 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-00150-3

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