, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern … agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global … agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally …

1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features necessary to study the problem, including an explicit agriculture …

1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features necessary to study the problem, including an explicit agriculture …

traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector produces food to sustain contemporaneous population. Agriculture demands … factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …