Booming solar energy is encroaching on cropland

Ning Zhang; Huabo Duan; Yuli Shan; T. Reed Miller; Jiakuan Yang; Xuemei Bai

doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01304-1

Booming solar energy is encroaching on cropland

Ning Zhang, Huabo Duan^*, Yuli Shan, T. Reed Miller, Jiakuan Yang, Xuemei Bai^*

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Fenner School of Environment & Society

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Abstract

The rapid spread of solar power plants onto cropland is having increasingly detrimental impacts. Targeted policy and technological solutions are urgently needed to resolve the tension between renewable energy and food production.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	932-934
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Geoscience
Volume	16
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01304-1
Publication status	Published - 6 Nov 2023

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Booming solar energy is encroaching on cropland

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