Bumb, Balu L.; Baanante, Carlos A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1996
In the mid-1960s, when projections of global starvation were common, no one questioned the role of mineral fertilizer (plant nutrients, mainly nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium from inorganic sources) in promoting food production in the food-deficit countries. On the contrary, fertilizer use...