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Ensuring groundwater recharge in a sensitive Michigan watershed through PES, USA

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Year of publication 2014

Pages 8p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This payment for environmental services (PES) project incentivizes corn and soybean farmers to implement conservation practices that return water to nature.

Language English

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