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global production. We then used randomiza-tion to capture variance at all stages of the supply chain (17). We validated the global representativeness of our sample by comparing average and 90th-percentile yields to Food and Agriculture Or-ganization (FAO) data (4), which reconcile to within ±10% for most crops. Using FAO food
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