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Boosting food crop yields 'can protect biodiversity'
2016-01-29 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Increasing crop yields could help meet the rising global demand for more food while sparing land to protect biodiversity, a study has suggested. The expansion of agriculture is deemed to be one of the main drivers for global habitat and biodiversity loss. Researchers from the UK and Brazil say that boosting yields could help - but only if policies such as incentives or land-zoning are implemented as well. Their findings have been published in the journal Science. "The least bad way we...
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