① Reduced air pollution from climate mitigation could boost crop yields and lower hunger risk. (IMAGE)

National Institute for Environmental Studies

① Reduced air pollution from climate mitigation could boost crop yields and lower hunger risk.

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Global population at risk of hunger (a), global mean food availability (b), and food prices (c) in the baseline scenario, and, as differences from the 2050 baseline estimate, the effects of climate change alone, climate mitigation policies, and the associated ozone reduction on the global population at risk of hunger (d), global mean food availability (e), and food prices (f). The combined effect represents the sum of the effects of these three drivers. Shaded areas in (a–c) indicate inter-model uncertainty, whereas bars in (d–f) show the median across the six models. Markers denote individual model results.

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Shujuan Xia, Tomoko Hasegawa, Thanapat Jansakoo, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Shinichiro Fujimori, Maksym Chepeliev, Marta Kozicka, Abhijeet Mishra, Willem-Jan van Zeist, Xin Zhao, Thijs de Lange, Thais Diniz Oliveira, Jonathan C. Doelman, Matthew Gibson, Petr Havlik, Mario Herrero, Ipsita Kumar, Yuki Ochi, Timothy B. Sulser, Marina Sundiang, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Jun’ya Takakura, Keith Wiebe

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