Desquilbet, Marion; Dorin, Bruno; Couvet, Denis - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013
We show that between intensive and extensive farming, the production method most beneficial to biodiversity depends on … has 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 to consumers …