low toxicity pesticides, and variables reflecting pesticide impacts on biodiversity and operator’s health. The application … focuses on panel data of Dutch cash crop producers. The pesticide contribution on some biodiversity categories are found to …

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 …

statistical relevance in enhancing biodiversity. …

A comprehensive quantification of biodiversity in farming systems would require a very significant amount of work (and … funds) even for a small area. Therefore, biodiversity indicators are needed to solve the problem of the measurement … from a farm-scale biodiversity survey (EU-FP7, BioBio - “Indicators for biodiversity in organic and low-input farming …

potential to be applied also to non-agrifood commodities or even services. Furthermore, due to the severe menace of biodiversity … loss caused by globalization, GIs could serve as a tool to promote biodiversity if linked to plant varieties menaced of …