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Food-driven air pollution emissions

The EDGAR-FOOD database presents a way forward in quantifying the impacts of air pollutants emitted from the global food system on human health and crops.

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Balasubramanian, S., Babbar, D. Food-driven air pollution emissions. Nat Food 3, 892–893 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00637-1

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