When imagining how to maximize agricultural productivity in the future, it is easy to picture vast monocrop fields maintained by drones and agrichemicals. Yet there are alternative pathways that might enable both high yields and greater sustainability, by enhancing the ecological processes underpinning crop growth and health. These ‘agroecological’ farming […]
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An Encounter with Elephants
Iris Berger, a PhD student in Conservation Science at the University of Cambridge, talks about the second season of her field research in India. For her accounts on the first season and background to her work read Reconciling Agriculture with Biodiversity – Part I and Part 2 on the Leica […]
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