future -- Changing tastes -- A land-scarce world -- Land for the next generation …

An intrinsic feature of agriculture is the alteration of biodiversity within the cultivated area in favour of the … biodiversity are important for human health and wellbeing. The overarching question is how can negative influences of agriculture … on biodiversity be reduced and positive interactions be enhanced toward an efficient and sustainable food production …

increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation and food security through the increases in crop yields. The framework … indirectly the cross-cutting ecological concerns foci of major global conventions: climate change, biodiversity, the combat of … biodiversity and preventing land degradation. These options demonstrate that the judicious management of organic matter is central …

The world is banking on a major increase in food production, if the dietary needs and food preferences of an increasing … biodiversity. Ecologists have shown that biodiversity loss results in lower plant productivity, while agricultural economists have … linked biodiversity loss on farms with increasing variability of crop yields, and sometimes lower mean yields. In this paper …