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Editorial: Sustainable and Climate-Smart Agriculture in the Boreal and Arctic Regions.

Unc A, Adamczyk B, Borchard N. 2022. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems; Volume 6 – 2022, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.816726

Expansion and intensification of agriculture into the boreal and Arctic regions, while supporting diversification of local economies through the creation of new income opportunities, create multiple challenges as they (i) threaten the fragile ecosystems, (ii) alter the carbon sink capacity of northern ecosystems, (iii) affect indigenous and non-indigenous food cultures, and (iv) require significant infrastructural changes that might also affect the local demographics and induce cultural changes. 

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