Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6898, 2002, Pages 671-677

  Tilman, David ^a   Cassman, Kenneth G ^b   Matson, Pamela A ^c   Naylor, Rosamond ^c   Polasky, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; HEALTH; LAND USE; PUBLIC POLICY;

GLOBAL FOOD DEMAND;

AGRICULTURE;

FOOD PRODUCTION; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD SUPPLY; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION GROWTH; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 0037043689     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01014     Document Type: Review

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