The world is banking on a major increase in food production, if the dietary needs and food preferences of an increasing … 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 …

Protecting biodiversity will require the phase-out of harmful production at a large scale. However, some of these … bilateral investment treaties they are parties to, that pose the most severe threat to biodiversity protection. It assumes that … foreign investment positions, and (iii) in countries with vulnerable biodiversity. To operationalize these notions, the paper …

Halting the ongoing global loss of biodiversity will require extensive phase-out of harmful production. A significant … income losses. To examine the impact of investment treaties on biodiversity protection, this paper studies a setting with … is harmful to biodiversity, and how this in turn reduces the host country's willingness to phase out the stranded …