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Opportunities in climate change?

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Climate change threatens crop production and food security in many parts of the world. But planned adaption may turn the negative effects of climate change on agriculture into gains.

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Figure 1: Simplified representation of the main factors determining yield change and the implication of climate change-anticipating technologies.

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