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June 03, 2013

Improving 'crop per drop' could boost food and water security
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jun 02, 2013
Improvements in crop water productivity - the amount of food produced per unit of water consumed - have the potential to improve both food security and water sustainability in many parts of the world, according to a study published online in Environmental Research Letters May 29 by scientists with the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (IonE) and the Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) at the University of Bonn, Germany. Led by IonE postdoctoral research ... read more

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