Halve the Farmland, Save Nature, Feed the World

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By Climate News NetworkApr 24, 2020, 8:44 am193 pts
By Tim Radford Forget about organic farming: get the best out of the best cropland, return the rest to nature and still feed the world. It could work, say researchers. Once again, scientists have demonstrated that humans could restore roughly half the planet as a natural home for all the other wild things,…

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