Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for SurvivalLime Tree, 1992 - 291 pages |
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... already short of water , could find supplies cut by between a quarter and a half of present levels . FARMING accounts for some 70 percent of global water use . In its State of the World 1990 report , the Worldwatch Institute gave a ...
... already short of water , could find supplies cut by between a quarter and a half of present levels . FARMING accounts for some 70 percent of global water use . In its State of the World 1990 report , the Worldwatch Institute gave a ...
Page 108
... already synthetic cocoa butters , but poor flavor limits their commercial success . In Miracle or Menace ? Bio- technology and the Third World , Robert Walgate explains how Japa- nese , American , British , and Dutch firms are working ...
... already synthetic cocoa butters , but poor flavor limits their commercial success . In Miracle or Menace ? Bio- technology and the Third World , Robert Walgate explains how Japa- nese , American , British , and Dutch firms are working ...
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... already endangered environment : The economic subsystem has reached or exceeded important source and sink limits .... We have already fouled our nest : practically nowhere in this earth are signs of the human economy absent . From the ...
... already endangered environment : The economic subsystem has reached or exceeded important source and sink limits .... We have already fouled our nest : practically nowhere in this earth are signs of the human economy absent . From the ...
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Our Country, The Planet: Forging A Partnership For Survival Shridath S. Ramphal No preview available - 1992 |
Our Country, The Planet: Forging A Partnership For Survival Shridath S. Ramphal No preview available - 1992 |
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