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 Stories About: China AND food and agriculture AND India AND placemaking AND United States
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They Paved Pears and Rice and Put Up a Parking Lot
Pavement is replacing the world's croplands |
Lester R. Brown |
01 Mar 2001 |
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| As the new century begins, the competition between cars and crops for cropland is intensifying. Until now, the paving over of cropland has occurred largely in industrial countries, home to four-fifths of the world's 520 million automobiles. But now, more and more farmland is being sacrificed in developing countries with hungry populations, calling into question the future ... |
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| Topics: China, food and agriculture, India, placemaking, United States (all these topics) |
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