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Without a great food system transformation, the world will fail to deliver both on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. There are five grand challenges to be faced, by science and society, to effect that transformation.

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Fig. 1: An estimate of the global food system’s transgression of planetary boundaries.
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    Johan Rockström, Ottmar Edenhofer & Juliana Gaertner

  2. Bioversity International, Montpellier, France

    Fabrice DeClerck

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  3. Juliana Gaertner
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Rockström, J., Edenhofer, O., Gaertner, J. et al. Planet-proofing the global food system. Nat Food 1, 3–5 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-019-0010-4

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