The Organic Farming and the Sustainable Agriculture
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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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Rural Problems
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0388-8525,2185-9973
DOI: 10.7310/arfe1965.27.28