Agriculture and biodiversity: a review
@article{Dudley2017AgricultureAB, title={Agriculture and biodiversity: a review}, author={Nigel Dudley and Sasha Alexander}, journal={Biodiversity}, year={2017}, volume={18}, pages={45 - 49} }
Abstract Agriculture is the largest contributor to biodiversity loss with expanding impacts due to changing consumption patterns and growing populations. Agriculture destroys biodiversity by converting natural habitats to intensely managed systems and by releasing pollutants, including greenhouses gases. Food value chains further amplify impacts including through energy use, transport and waste. Reducing the food system’s toll on biodiversity is a critical challenge. The ‘sparing or sharing…
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