Natural farming could feed more with fewer pesticides and fertilisers

As the world’s population rises, an EU-funded project has explored how to boost farm productivity without simply piling on the chemicals which can harm the environment, instead using techniques found in nature.

The world will need to feed an extra two billion people by 2050, but land space is already squeezed. With a limit to the amount of land that can be devoted to agriculture, farms will need to produce more. Today, farmers turn to pesticides and fertilisers to boost productivity, but there is another way.

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