The expansion of modern agriculture and global biodiversity decline: An integrated assessment
By Bruno Lanz, Simon Dietz, T. Swanson. 2016
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Modern agriculture relies on a small number of highly productive crops and its continued expansion has led to a significant loss of biodiversity. In this paper we consider the macroeconomic consequences of this land conversion process from the perspective of agricultural productivity and food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally estimated model of the global economy in which economic growth, population and food demand, agricultural innovations, and land conversion are jointly determined. We show that even a small impact of global biodiversity on agricultural productivity calls for both a halt in agricultural land conversion and increased agricultural R&D.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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Citations in the corpus
- Towards nexus-based governance: defining interactions between economic activities and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (2020, background): “Agriculture’s extensive land use also drives biodiversity loss (Lanz et al. 2018), as well as land degradation [15.3] (Nowak and Schneider 2017).”
- Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change (2019, unknown): “Furthermore, these changes are associated with a marked loss of biodiversity 206 , including of microorganisms 207 .”