biodiversity. Ecologists have shown that biodiversity loss results in lower plant productivity, while agricultural economists have … linked biodiversity loss on farms with increasing variability of crop yields, and sometimes lower mean yields. In this paper … agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally …

adopt sustainable cultivation of local varieties and thus maintain high levels of biodiversity, without a burden on public …

Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk-averse farmers by reducing the variance of crop yield, and to … analyze the choice of agro-biodiversity by risk-averse farmers who have access to financial insurance, and study the … implications for agri-environmental policy design when on-farm agro-biodiversity generates a positive risk externality. While …

concentrated. Biologists and conservation advocates have advanced a number of arguments both that “biodiversity” is imperiled as …

to recent studies of biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships (e.g. Jochum et al. 2020), the results suggest that …

Climate change has become a key threat to biodiversity. As a response to climate change, species may adapt spatially …

biodiversity in farms, a tax or subsidy on farmland, and a tax or subsidy on a dirty input.In several cases, the first …