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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

Harmonizing climate-smart and sustainable agriculture

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Developing new modelling tools to support better design of climate change adaptation strategies offers an opportunity to harmonize crop production, climate change mitigation and environmental sustainability.

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Fig. 1: Harmonizing climate change adaptation, mitigation and environmental sustainability in global crop production to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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  1. Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Bin Peng & Kaiyu Guan

  2. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Bin Peng & Kaiyu Guan

  3. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Kaiyu Guan

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