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Biological Nitrogen Fixation Research Challenges - A Review of Research Grants Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (1994) / Chapter Skim
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... cost of fertilizer nitrogen and its substantial environmental damage, coupled with the expanding requirement for food and the desire for more sustainable agriculture and forestry. These dictate research investment in BNF in the 1990s that is even more urgent than in the 1970s and 1980s.
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... Policies should be developed to encourage expanded use of BNF based on its total economic benefits including unsubsidized direct and environmental costs of fertilizer nitrogen its sustainability, its potential to meet world food needs, and its social implications.
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