Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2017 - This version: July 2017
, 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 … biodiversity. Ecologists have shown that biodiversity loss results in lower plant productivity, while agricultural economists have …