Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production: Revisiting Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2010-02-12

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Economics, Business, Environmental Science, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1126/science.1183725PMID 20150490
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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