Phys.org  September 9, 2024 Agriculture’s global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding, driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. In their review an international team of researchers (USA – University of Minnesota, Cornell University, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, The Nature Conservancy, MN, World Resources Institute, Columbia University, Stanford, Scotland, Denmark, Italy, UK) highlighted climate change as an additional amplifier of agriculture’s environmental impacts, by reducing agricultural productivity and efficiency of agrochemicals, increasing soil erosion, accelerating the growth and expanding the range of crop diseases and pests, and increasing land clearing. They identified multiple pathways through […]