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"Peak farmland" is here, food crop area to fall - study [1]

The amount of land needed to grow crops worldwide is at a peak and an area more than twice the size of France can return to nature by 2060 due to rising yields and slower population growth, a group

Publication Date: 
18/12/2012
Alister Doyle [2]
Reuters [3]
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Land [4], Agriculture [5], Biofuel [6], Food Crops [7], Food Security [8], Livestock [9], Animal Feed [10], China [11], Russia [12], Europe [13], Egypt [14], FAO [15], Soil Salinisation [16], Floods [17], Drought [18], Desert Spread [19], Heat Waves [20], India [21], Farmers [22]

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