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Agricultural performance over the border line

Effects of national policies on crop yield and nitrogen losses can be disentangled from environmental conditions using spatial discontinuities between international borders.

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Fig. 1: Theoretical relationship between yield and total soil nitrogen input.

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Billen, G. Agricultural performance over the border line. Nat Food 1, 667–668 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-020-00188-3

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