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Chart of Environmental Impacts of Food

Environmental Impacts of Food

Sources

UN Food and Agriculture Organization, www.fao.org; "Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers", Poore & Nemecek, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987.full; *IUCN Redlist, www.iucn.org; cited at Our World in Data, https://ourworldindata.org/life-on-earth

Tags: agriculture, food, environmental impacts of agriculture, land use, greenhouse gases, biodiversity, eutrophication, fresh water withdrawals, environmental impacts of food, agriculture-food

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