Ecology: Agriculture at a crossroads

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5874, 2008, Pages 320-321

  Kiers, E Toby ^a   Leakey, Roger R B ^b   Izac, Anne Marie ^c   Heinemann, Jack A ^d   Rosenthal, Erika ^e   Nathan, Dev ^f   Jiggins, Janice ^g  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c International Fund for Agricultural Development   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e International Center for Transitional Justice   (United States)

^f Institute for Human Development   (India)

^g WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOLOGY; ROAD;

AGRICULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FUNDING; INVESTMENT; MARKETING; MONEY; POLICY; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL AREA; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POVERTY; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 42349085713     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158390     Document Type: Short Survey

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