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 …

An intrinsic feature of agriculture is the alteration of biodiversity within the cultivated area in favour of the … biodiversity are important for human health and wellbeing. The overarching question is how can negative influences of agriculture … on biodiversity be reduced and positive interactions be enhanced toward an efficient and sustainable food production …