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    Intensive farming protects biodiversity

    Nov 18, 2021 1 minute
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    A NEW REVIEW BOLSTERS THE IDEA THAT, to best conserve global biodiversity while feeding a growing human population, agriculture needs to become more intensive rather than more wildlife friendly.

    The review, published in the , looks at 2,500 species worldwide in a range of agricultural landscapes and finds that most species fare better in ‘land sparing’ systems where agriculture is high-yield, intensive and confined to a smaller area, rather than in ‘land sharing’ systems where the farming itself is more wildlife-friendly but needs more land to produce the same amount of food.

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