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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands. By diversifying the system, you provide a lot more habitat for these natural pollinators to pollinate crops,” said Singh-Varma.

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Agrivoltaic solar farms offer "shocking" benefits beyond producing energy

Agritecture Blog

Plants and panels can exist in "symbiosis" Agrivoltaic solar parks see photovoltaic (PV) panels spaced further apart to allow more sunlight to reach the ground, and raised higher in the air so that crops – or even small livestock such as lambs – can be reared underneath. It's getting a lot of flack." Credit: Thomas Hickey.

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