Green Revolution research saved an estimated 18 to 27 million hectares from being brought into agricultural production
New estimates of the impacts of germplasm improvement in the major staple crops between 1965 and 2004 on global land-cover change are presented, based on simulations carried out using a global economic model (Global Trade Analysis Project Agro-Ecological Zone), a multicommodity, multiregional comput...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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National Academy of Sciences
2013
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128777 |
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