Linking ecological sustainability and world food needs

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 185-196

  Power, Alison G ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecological design; Biodiversity and agriculture; Ecological sustainability; Input substitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000190513     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1010074805303     Document Type: Article

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