Compared to high-input industrialized monoculture, low-input polyculture produces lower yields with less energy per unit of yield produces similar yields with less energy per unit of yield produces higher yields with less energy per unit of yield increases topsoil erosion produces greater amounts of greenhouse gases

Compared to high-input industrialized monoculture, low-input polyculture produces lower yields with less energy per unit of yield produces similar yields with less energy per unit of yield produces higher yields with less energy per unit of yield increases topsoil erosion produces greater amounts of greenhouse gases

Nutrition Now

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Chapter21: Phytochemicals

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