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Reclamation of Indurated, Volcanic-Ash Materials in Latin America

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The 1974 energy crisis precipitated by the oil-producing nations focused world attention on dwindling petroleum reserves. The depletion of global soil reserves may be equally serious, but it has not attracted the same degree of international interest. Per-capita food production has been declining in Latin America since 1970, partly because land is being taken out of production; the per-capita number of hectares of arable land in developing nations will be reduced from 0.35 to 0.20 between 1975 and 2000 (Barney, 1980). Wind and water erosion are among the major reasons for the decline in food production and loss of productive land (Brown and Wolf, 1984).

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    Rattan Lal

  2. USDA Conservation and Production Research Lab, Bushland, TX, 79012, USA

    B. A. Stewart

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Nimlos, T.J. (1992). Reclamation of Indurated, Volcanic-Ash Materials in Latin America. In: Lal, R., Stewart, B.A. (eds) Soil Restoration. Advances in Soil Science, vol 17. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2820-2_6

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