Evaluating the Sustainability of a Small-Scale Low-Input Organic Vegetable Supply System in the United Kingdom
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resource use; crop diversity; supermarket; emergy; LCA; food supply; vegetables; resilience; low-input agriculture; organic farming;All these keywords.
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