GMO approvals under pressure: How climate shocks shape policy across nations

Xiangwen Kong

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0332298

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GMO approvals under pressure: How climate shocks shape policy across nations

Xiangwen Kong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: xzk0006@auburn.edu

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6353-4195

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GMO approvals under pressure: How climate shocks shape policy across nations

Xiangwen Kong

Published: October 22, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0332298

About the Authors

Xiangwen Kong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: xzk0006@auburn.edu

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6353-4195

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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