Impact of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global human nutrition

@article{Smith2018ImpactOA,  title={Impact of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global human nutrition},  author={Matthew R. Smith and Samuel S. Myers},  journal={Nature Climate Change},  year={2018},  volume={8},  pages={834-839},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:91727337}}
The impact of elevated CO2 concentrations on the sufficiency of dietary intake of iron, zinc and protein for the populations of 151 countries using a model of per-capita food availability stratified by age and sex is analyzed.

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