Environmental Impact of Different Agricultural Management Practices: Conventional vs. Organic Agriculture

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences - Tập 30 Số 1-2 - Trang 95-124 - 2011
Tiziano Gomiero1, David Pimentel2, Maurizio G. Paoletti1
1Laboratory of Agroecology and Ethnobiology, Department of Biology , Padova University , Padova , 35121 , Italy
2College of Agriculture and Life Sciences , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York , 14853 , USA

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