Trade in the US and Mexico helps reduce environmental costs of agriculture

Increasing international crop trade has enlarged global shares of cropland, water and fertilizers used to grow crops for export. Crop trade can reduce the environmental burden on importing countries, which benefit from embedded environmental resources in imported crops, and from avoided environmenta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Luz A Martinez-Melendez, Elena M Bennett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/055004