As you are aware, climate change has a dual impact on many approaches and sectors, both positive and negative. As a result, most of the time, the positive impact of climate change on biodiversity conservation in the agricultural ecosystem is unclear and lacks a researchable area. If anyone has an idea and the sources of published findings, please share your evidence!
Well, I don`t know if there are publications on the following topic.
But there is one thing I often think about. One of the problems for biodiversity in agriculture nowadays is that the crops are cultivated in a very high density so that no light reaches the top of the soil. But this is a critical point for a lot of plants, insects and other animals. E.g. the plants could be wet in the morning for a longer time and young, not fledged birds could get wet as well and freeze.
So if there are areas in a field that are not so well vegetated or even without vegetation at all because of dryer conditions due to climate change, biodiversity could profit from that.
So all in all I think about possible enhancement of structural diversity in otherwise monotonous agricultural areas by the failure of growing plants due to drier conditions.
You can read through this document for information
https://agricultureandfoodsecurity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40066-021-00318-5
There are none because we have seen globally, biodiversity is being lost and increasingly threatened through a range of anthropogenic actions.
Kindly have a look at the article for more insight. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720312948
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The recent 550-page UN report (the must-to-be read) entitled "Creating a Sustainable Food Future" warns that world hunger figures are on the rise again. It is available on:
https://www.wri.org/research/creating-sustainable-food-future
The report, produced in partnership with CIRAD, the World Bank, UNEP, UNDP and INRA, offers solutions to feed the planet in 2050 without destroying it. The report estimates that to meet the challenge of feeding 10 billion people in 2050, without destroying the planet, it would be necessary to be able to: produce 56% more food, compared to 2010, avoiding the use of 600 million hectares of additional agricultural land, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 11 gigatonnes to comply with the Paris Agreement.
To meet this challenge, the report proposes a “menu” of 5 solutions: (i) Reduce the growth in food demand, by reducing losses and waste, by adopting healthier diets; (ii) Increase food production without expanding the area of agricultural land by increasing productivity in agriculture and livestock; (iii) Protect and restore natural ecosystems by reducing deforestation, restoring peat-lands and linking yield gains to ecosystem conservation; (iv) Increase fishery resources by improving aquaculture systems and better managing fisheries; (v) Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agricultural production through innovative agricultural technologies and methods
Dear Readers, The issue of National Water Security concerns drinking water supply but also food safety, linked to agricultural policy. Both rainfed and irrigated agriculture play complementary roles in food security, and the water issue implies a holistic view of water resources. To discuss this issue, I just started a discussion on water security and food security in arid countries:
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