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In the Amazon River Basin, Brazilian ranchers have been practicing slash-and-burn agriculture to create grasslands, mostly for cattle ranching, because the resulting nutrient-poor soils can't sustain farming for more than a year or two.

Tony Greenberg: The Tug of War - Ethical vs. Economic "Green" Decisions Tony Greenberg 2010

In the Amazon River Basin, Brazilian ranchers have been practicing slash-and-burn agriculture to create grasslands, mostly for cattle ranching, because the resulting nutrient-poor soils can't sustain farming for more than a year or two.

Tony Greenberg: The Tug of War - Ethical vs. Economic "Green" Decisions Tony Greenberg 2010

But here in Brazil's Cerrado, a wide savannah that covers nearly a quarter of the country, wheat varieties created especially for tropical climates and nutrient-poor soil bloom alongside corn, soybeans and cotton.

Brazilian scientists turning nation into an agro-power Juan Forero 2010

"A population that's overweight and undernourished, selecting nutrient-poor foods."

Time to give whole milk a second shake? Jennifer LaRue Huget 2011

Most of us garden in these nutrient-poor and often alkaline, or basic soils.

Get the dirt on your soil 2010

But here in Brazil's Cerrado, a wide savannah that covers nearly a quarter of the country, wheat varieties created especially for tropical climates and nutrient-poor soil bloom alongside corn, soybeans and cotton.

Brazilian scientists turning nation into an agro-power Juan Forero 2010

But fresh, unprocessed, wholesome foods haven't got K Street lobbyists and Madison Avenue marketers to promote them, while Viagra and Lipitor are making a fortune for Big Pharma, helped along by Big Food's low-cost, high-calorie, nutrient-poor products.

Kerry Trueman: Want to Save the Economy? Change What You Eat Kerry Trueman 2011

But fresh, unprocessed, wholesome foods haven't got K Street lobbyists and Madison Avenue marketers to promote them, while Viagra and Lipitor are making a fortune for Big Pharma, helped along by Big Food's low-cost, high-calorie, nutrient-poor products.

Kerry Trueman: Want to Save the Economy? Change What You Eat Kerry Trueman 2011

Rather than using valuable crop land needed for food production, nutrient-poor land could be used to grow grasses and willows that can then be converted to biofuel without the use of electricity.

Tiny Gribble May Hold Key To Efficient Biofuel Conversion | Inhabitat 2010

Their stature shrank, more degenerative diseases weakened and/or killed them, malnutrition left its mark grain is calorie-dense, but nutrient-poor, compared with meat and greens.

Stephanie J. Stiavetti: Holly Heyser: The Philosophical Huntress Stephanie J. Stiavetti 2011