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Category: Agriculture
Title: Common Ground, Common Future: How Eco-Agriculture Can Help Feed the World
Authors: Jeffrey A. McNeely and Sara J. Scherr
Organizations: Future Harvest and World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Date: May 2001
Language: English
Number of Pages: 27, with Maps and Footnotes
Eco-Index Summary: This report recognizes that unsustainable practices of many current agricultural methods threatens global biodiversity and notes that agricultural production in many rural regions, home to a significant variety of flora and fauna, as well as people, will need to continue supplying food for a growing population. The study concludes that integrating science and policy can result both in productive agriculture and effective conservation. The authors offer six strategies that aim to conserve natural habitat and resources, produce adequate amounts of food, and provide sufficient income to farmers. Each strategy is illustrated with case studies, several of them from Central America.
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