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Unequal effects of climate intervention on agriculture

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Model simulations show regional disparities in the responses of national crop productions to a suite of solar geoengineering scenarios that reflect sunlight to cool Earth.

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Y.F. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42005130) and the Scientific Research Start-up Funds (QD2023021C) from Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School.

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Fan, Y. Unequal effects of climate intervention on agriculture. Nat Food 4, 835–836 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00861-3

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