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• Multifunctional land uses in Africa: sustainable food security solutions

  This book presents contemporary case studies of land use, management practices, and innovation in Africa with a view to exploring how multifunctional land uses can alleviate food insecurity and poverty.Food

  • 01/01/2020

  • Taylor & Francis Group
  • • Land Use
    • Food Security
    • Agriculture
    • Aquaculture
    • Watershed Development
    • Africa

• Pathway of Arsenic from water to food, West Bengal, India

  The large agrarian population of West Bengal drink groundwater with arsenic content anywhere between 0.05 and 3.7 mg/L. Greater than 44% of this population suffers from arsenic related diseases like conjunctivitis, melanosis, hyperkeratosis, and hyper pigmentation. In certain areas gangrene in the limb, malignant neoplasm and even skin

  • 01/01/2007

  • Taylor & Francis Group
  • • Agriculture
    • Rice
    • Wheat
    • Vegetables
    • Food Contamination
    • Tubewells
    • Arsenic
    • Health Effects
    • Irrigation
    • Sedimentation
    • Health
    • Groundwater Quality
    • West Bengal