Soils, land, and food : managing the land during the twenty-first century /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Managing land for food production in the twenty-first century: an outline
- Natural resources for sustainable land management
- The development of agriculture and systems of land management
- Maintaining and improving soil fertility
- Land degradation and its control
- Raising yields: use of fertilizers
- Raising yields: water for rainfed crops and irrigation
- Managing change of land use: seven examples
- Increasing and sustaining agricultural production
- Increasing agricultural production: the examples of Africa, India and China
- Prospects and uncertainties.