Join The Conversation: Biodiversity Loss

Global food production has resulted in significant biodiversity loss, new research shows. That research, conducted in part by CEM’s Director Dr. Kevin McCann, suggests that the efficiency of food production comes at the cost of robustness as diverse forests and pastures have been replaced with vast monocultures of fast-growing, short-lived food crops.

In this article, The Conversation unpacks what the costs of global food productivity really are, and how humanity’s drive for increased food production has fundamentally altered ecosystem biostructure.