Current food trade helps mitigate future climate change impacts in lower-income nations

• Kushank Bajaj ,

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

  * E-mail: bajajkushank@gmail.com

  Affiliations Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1002-4669

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• Zia Mehrabi,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

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• Thomas Kastner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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• Jonas Jägermeyr,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States of America, Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

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• Christoph Müller,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany

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• Florian Schwarzmüller,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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• Thomas W. Hertel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

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• Navin Ramankutty

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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