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Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers

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Food’s environmental impacts are created by millions of diverse producers. To identify solutions that are effective under this heterogeneity, we consolidated data covering five environmental indicators; 38,700 farms; and 1600 processors, packaging types, and retailers. Impact can vary 50-fold among producers of the same product, creating substantial mitigation opportunities. However, mitigation is complicated by trade-offs, multiple ways for producers to achieve low impacts, and interactions ...

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Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed
Version:
Accepted Manuscript

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10.1126/science.aaq0216

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS Division
Department:
Zoology
Role:
Author
Publisher:
American Association for the Advancement of Science Publisher's website
Journal:
Science Journal website
Volume:
360
Issue:
6392
Pages:
987-992
Publication date:
2018-06-01
Acceptance date:
2018-04-17
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EISSN:
1095-9203
ISSN:
0036-8075
Pubs id:
pubs:854765
URN:
uri:b0b53649-5e93-4415-bf07-6b0b1227172f
UUID:
uuid:b0b53649-5e93-4415-bf07-6b0b1227172f
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pubs:854765

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