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Peer-reviewed

Potential benefits of liming to acid soils on climate change mitigation and food security

Yan Wang, Zhisheng Yao, Yang Zhan, Xunhua Zheng, Minghua Zhou, Guangxuan Yan, Lin Wang, Christian Werner, Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl

Global Change Biology · 2021

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Summary

, covering the food supply of 876 million people. Overall, our study shows for the first time that a general strategy of liming of acid agricultural soils is likely to result in an increasing sustainability of global agricultural production, indicating the potential benefit of liming acid soils for climate change mitigation and food security.

Subject
Food security & global nutrition
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1111/gcb.15607
Catalogue ID
SNmov5kxxj-ihlsw6
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