Pimentel, D. and Harvey, C. and Resodudarmo, P. and et al, . (1995) Environmental and economic costs of soil erosion and conservation benefits. Science, 267 (5201). pp. 1117-1123.
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Soil erosion is a major environmental threat to the sustainability and productive capacity of agriculture. During the last 40 years, nearly one-third of the world's arable land has been lost by erosion and continues to be lost at a rate of more than 10 million hectares per year. With the addition of a quarter of a million people each day, the world population's food demand is increasing at a time when per capita food productivity is beginning to decline
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | 5126 Comstock Hall, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-0901, USA |
| Subjects: | Soil Science and Microbiology > Soil Sciences |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2013 05:48 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2013 05:48 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.267.5201.1117 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/9888 |
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