• DOI:10.1126/science.267.5201.1117
• Corpus ID: 11936877

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}
}

• D. Pimentel, C. Harvey, +8 authors R. Blair
• Published 24 February 1995
• Geography, Medicine
• Science

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.