Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits
@article{Pimentel1995EnvironmentalAE, title={Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits}, author={David Pimentel and Celia A. Harvey and P. Resosudarmo and K. Sinclair and Daniel Kurz and Michael Mcnair and S. Crist and L. Shpritz and L. Fitton and R Saffouri and Robert F. Blair}, journal={Science}, year={1995}, volume={267}, pages={1117 - 1123} }
Soil erosion is a major environmental threat to the sustainability and productive capacity of agriculture. During the last 40 years, nearly one-third of the world's arable land has been lost by erosion and continues to be lost at a rate of more than 10 million hectares per year. With the addition of a quarter of a million people each day, the world population's food demand is increasing at a time when per capita food productivity is beginning to decline.
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