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

Civil Eats

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. They disperse seeds, pollinate, and transfer nutrients across landscapes, supporting healthy plant populations, and they alter their environments in ways that enhance biodiversity.

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Measuring and valuing: Nature

Sustainable Food Trust

We know that more biodiverse agricultural systems have a range of advantages over those which are less diverse, from the much greater resilience of yields from multi-species versus single species grasslands to the benefits of agroforestry systems and mixed cropping. Or is it too little? At what level do we move from good to bad?

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