Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Over six decades, intensive agricultural practices in India have reduced natural capital , including the stock of all-natural assets (land, air, water and biodiversity), from which ecosystem services flow. Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland. percent in 1947 to 0.4

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In China, for example, research shows that plastic field covers keep the soil warm and wet in a way that boosts productivity considerably; an additional 15,000 square miles of arable land—an area about the size of Switzerland—would be required to produce the same amount of food. percent of global emissions.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

Environmental benefits will be profound with net greenhouse gas emissions from the sector falling by 45 percent by 2030. Farmland values will collapse by 40-80 percent. The outcome for individual regions and farms depends on the land’s alternative uses, amenity value, and policy choices that are made.

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