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Brazilian soil science: from its inception to the future, and beyond

Flavio A. de Oliveira Camargo, Víctor Hugo Alvarez V., Philippe C. Baveye

01/Jun/2010

The present essay is meant to provide some background on the evolution of the soil science community in Brazil, since its inception, to describe its current situation, and to outline a number of opportunities and challenges facing the discipline in decades to come. The origin of Brazilian agronomy dates back to the beginning of the 19th century as a subdiscipline of botany, and its association with chemistry would later establish it as a science. In the middle of the 19th […]