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38 FAO, op. cit. note 37.

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39 Souhail Karam, “Drought-Hit North Africa Seen Hunting for Grains”, Reuters, 15 July 2005.

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42 Беседа автора с органами власти Хэлина, Внутренняя Монголия, 17 мая 2002.

43 Там же.

44 U.S. Embassy, Grapes of Wrath in Inner Mongolia (Beijing: May 2001).

45 A. Banerjee, “Dairying Systems in India”, World Annual Review , vol. 79/2 (Rome: FAO, 1994).

46 Rattan Lal, “Soil Carbon Sequestration Impacts on Global Climate Change and Food Security”, Science , vol. 304 (11 June 2004), pp. 1623–1627.

47 Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, The Science of Marine reserves , 2nd ed., International Version (Oregon and California: 2007).

48 Там же.

49 W. Renema et al., “Hopping Hotspots: Global Shifts in Marine Biodiversity”, Science , vol. 321, no. 5889 (1 August 2008), pp. 654–657.

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