How Valuing Nature Can Transform Agriculture

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7937
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Farley, Joshua; Filho, Abdon Schmitt; Alvez, Juan; de Freitas, Norton Ribeiro
Journal:	Solutions
Volume:	2
Page(s):	64-73
Date:	2011
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7937
Sector:	Agriculture
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Subject(s):	agriculture ecosystems
Abstract:	"Society must increase food production and restore vital ecosystem services or suffer unacceptable consequences. Unfortunately, conventional agriculture may be the single greatest threat to ecosystem function. At the same time, reducing ecologically harmful agricultural inputs or restoring farmlands to native ecosystems threatens food production. We fell into this predicament because we designed agricultural and economic systems that failed to account for ecosystem services, and the path forward requires redesigning both systems."

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