What conservationists need to know about farming
What conservationists need to know about farming
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DOI：
10.1098/rspb.2012.0515
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发表时间：
2012-07-22
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Phalan, Ben
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作者：
Balmford, Andrew;Green, Rhys;Phalan, Ben
农业是我们文明的基础，但对野生自然的破坏比人类活动的任何其他部分都要大。在这里，我们建议，为了限制其对未来的影响，保护研究人员和从业者需要解决几个大问题--关于未来需求的规模，关于研究哪些作物和牲畜，关于低产或高产耕作是否有可能对自然危害最小，关于新的和现有耕作方法的环境性能，以及使有希望的方法和技术能够发挥其潜力所需的措施。解决这些问题需要环保人士探索农业决策对农场以外的许多后果，对阻止生物多样性丧失所需的规模和范围进行广泛和富有想象力的思考，并足够勇敢地测试并在必要时支持违反直觉的措施。
Farming is the basis of our civilization yet is more damaging to wild nature than any other sector of human activity. Here, we propose that in order to limit its impact into the future, conservation researchers and practitioners need to address several big topics-about the scale of future demand, about which crops and livestock to study, about whether low-yield or high-yield farming has the potential to be least harmful to nature, about the environmental performance of new and existing farming methods, and about the measures needed to enable promising approaches and techniques to deliver on their potential. Tackling these issues requires conservationists to explore the many consequences that decisions about agriculture have beyond the farm, to think broadly and imaginatively about the scale and scope of what is required to halt biodiversity loss, and to be brave enough to test and when necessary support counterintuitive measures.