Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture without compromising food security?
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(1) IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, (2) INRA, Paris, France, (3) CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, (4) Gund Institute, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA, (5) University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine, (6) CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, St Lucia, Australia, (7) Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK, (8) Center for Social & Environmental Systems Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
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