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Abstract
« Fertilizers' use, 150 years old, gained its importance in the last twenty years, with a growing world population, its urbanisation and a consciousness of its poverty. Intensification, through fertilizers' use, of scare resources of land and water will increase the needs of the next twenty years. Nevertheless, there is a crisis within the fertilizers' industry : market déstabilisation through international prices movements, growing costs disparities according to raw material access. What will happen with rural development programs on one side, and industry's investment prog ram m on the other ? ».