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Europe's diminishing bread basket

Nature Climate Change volume 4, pages 541–542 (2014)Cite this article

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Global demand for wheat is projected to increase significantly with continuing population growth. Currently, Europe reliably produces about 29% of global wheat supply. However, this might be under threat from climate change if adaptive measures are not taken now.

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  1. Holger Meinke is at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 98, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia, and at the Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University, PO Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, The Netherlands,

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Meinke, H. Europe's diminishing bread basket. Nature Clim Change 4, 541–542 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2289

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