Problems of Marginal Land Farming
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Sustainable Land use and Organic Farming
There are 1.9 hectares of productive land available for each of the 6 billion people living in the world at present. In our industrialised Western society it is sometimes hard to realise quite how fundamental land is to our life on earth. The top six inches of land, which is soil, has to provide us with all our food. The land has to absorb much of our waste and is the catchment and filter for o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1951
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/168457a0