Role of organic agriculture in preventing and reversing land degradation

Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 523-536

  Edwards, Sue ^a  

^a Institute for Sustainable Development   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE PROCESS; COMPOSTING; CROPS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MANURES; METHANE; NITROGEN OXIDES; SOILS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS; ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURES; INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION; MOISTURE RETENTION CAPACITY; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS; SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM;

ORGANIC CARBON;

EID: 85108904023     PISSN: 18635520     EISSN: 18635539     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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