Conservation agriculture, improving soil quality for sustainable production systems?

Food Security and Soil Quality

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 137-208

  Verhulst, N ^a   Govaerts, B ^a   Verachtert, E ^b   Castellanos Navarrete, A ^a   Mezzalama, M ^a   Wall, P C ^a   Chocobar, A ^c   Deckers, J ^b   Sayre, K D ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Laboratorio de Fertilidad Carretera México Texcoco ^*  (Mexico)

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