Soil degradation: a threat to developing-country food security by 2020?

Global population in the year 2020 will be a third higher than in 1995, but demand for food and fiber will rise by an even higher proportion, as incomes grow, diets diversify, and urbanization accelerates. However this demand is met, population and farming pressure on land resources will intensify g...

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Main Author: Scherr, Sara J.
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 1999
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161339

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