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Increasing global demand for oil seeds and cereals during the past 50 years has caused an expansion in the cultivated areas and resulted in major soil management and crop production changes throughout Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and southern Brazil. Unprecedented adoption of no-tillage...
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Soil degradation can take many forms, from erosion to salinization to the overall depletion of organic matter. The expression of soil degradation is broad, and so too are the causes. As the world population nears eight billion, and the environmental uncertainty of climate change becomes more...
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Soil degradation is one of the most serious ecological problems in the world. In arid and semi-arid northern China, soil degradation predominantly arises from wind erosion. Trends in soil degradation caused by wind erosion in northern China frequently change with human activities and climatic...
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There is currently no legislation at the European level that focuses exclusively on soil conservation. A cross-policy analysis was carried out to identify gaps and overlaps in existing EU legislation that is related to soil threats and functions. We found that three soil threats, namely...
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India and China are two similar developing countries with huge populations, rapid economic growth and limited natural …% from 1963–2009, for India and China, respectively. Furthermore, our studies reveal that population growth dominates most of … the increase in total LRF for India; whereas diet pattern change induced by income growth drives the major increase in LRF …
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This article examines and compares efforts to reduce energy subsidies in China, India and Russia. Despite …
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the case of India, where the agency of small cities in regard to environmental governance seems to remain limited despite …
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, Central India, where most of the local population depends on it for agricultural activities. An increasing demand for …
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rapidly developing southern city of Bangalore, India. Vegetation played a major role in supporting nutrition by its role in …
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For centuries, the Ganges River in India has been the locus of sacred rites for the Hindus. The religious significance … inseparable part of their daily lives. Today, the increasingly urbanized Ganges basin sustains more than 40 percent of India … alarming levels of pollution in the river. In 1985, the federal government of India launched the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) with …
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