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"The first of these was the Centre d'Etude de l'Azote (CEA). It was established in Geneva in 1953, in a period when the Western European fertilizer manufacturers produced 50 percent of the world's nitrogen fertilizers. It was a time when competition in the existing export markets was beginning to grow but also when population growth in developing countries meant that new markets were emerging. The Western European producers decided to create a means of introducing these potential markets to mineral fertilizers. They therefore founded CEA, whose statutes defined its purpose as being "... the scientific and practical study of methods capable of insuring a rational and increasing use of nitrogenous fertilizers throughout the world."