The School of Integrative Plant (SIPS) is offering four two-year fellowships to graduate students for research tackling our Grand Challenges. Fellowships are for August 2024 admission. Application deadline is December 1, 2023. (November 15, 2023 for Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology.) More information.
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Fertility and Hunger . P. Sánchez. Published in 15 March 2002. Agricultural and Food Sciences, Environmental , Economics. The fundamental biophysical cause of stagnant per capita food production is fertility depletion. Because mineral fertilizers cost two to six times as much as those sold worldwide ...