Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2012-04-25

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature11069PMID 22535250
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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