on landholders, and that more effective and more transparent measures could be used to achieve biodiversity conservation … biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that … Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations, and Government’s response was released in August. In its final assessment, the …

A broad range of agriculture-environment interactions can be organized around the concept of agriculture as a producer …

We show that between intensive and extensive farming, the production method most beneficial to biodiversity depends on … has higher production costs, extensive farming tends to be more beneficial to biodiversity than intensive farming, except … when there is a very high degree of convexity between biodiversity and yield. Extensive farming is detrimental to consumers …

We show that whether intensive or extensive farming is most beneficial to biodiversity depends on the equilibrium of … agricultural markets. With higher production costs, extensive farming tends to be more beneficial to biodiversity than intensive … farming, except when there is a very high degree of convexity between biodiversity and yield. Extensive farming is detrimental …

concentrated. Biologists and conservation advocates have advanced a number of arguments both that “biodiversity” is imperiled as … services of forest ecosystems will prove sufficient to motivate their conservation on a large scale. Other instruments for … conservation must, then, be employed if areas under intense pressure for conversion are to be preserved. …