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Just five years ago, it was generally believed that the number of food insecure people in the world was on continuous decline. Unfortunately, widespread soil degradation along with resistance to recommended agronomic practices, and little attempt to restore degraded soils have conspired with significant droughts (in regions that could least tolerat

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 430 ● ISBN 9781439800584 ● Editor Rattan Lal & B.A. Stewart ● Publisher CRC Press ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7353138 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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