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During the post 1950 period, the farms yields increased dramatically. In order to sustain the increasing yields and productivity, farmers used large quantities of chemical fertilizers and pesticides (Novotny in Water Sci Technol 39, 1999).
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The REAGRITECH project (LIFE + 11 ENV/ES/579) was developed by the UNESCO Chair on Sustainability at the UPC (http://www.unescosost.org) in collaboration with TYPSA group and LEITAT, and funded by the European Commission within the framework of LIFE programme.
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Saad, M.B. et al. (2018). REAGRITECH: A Relevant Model of Sustainable Water Management. In: Kallel, A., Ksibi, M., Ben Dhia, H., Khélifi, N. (eds) Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions. EMCEI 2017. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70548-4_23
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