Desquilbet, Marion; Dorin, Bruno; Couvet, Denis - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
We show that whether intensive or extensive farming is most beneficial to biodiversity depends on the equilibrium of … agricultural markets. With higher production costs, extensive farming tends to be more beneficial to biodiversity than intensive … farming, except when there is a very high degree of convexity between biodiversity and yield. Extensive farming is detrimental …