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Even though there are many ways of treating agricultural land sparingly, applying fertilisers, pesticides and irrigation water appropriately, and cultivating highly productive crops, food production and the related activities (storage, preservation, raw material processing, transportation) will, without a doubt, be one of the crucial problems of humanity in the coming decades, and a cause of environmental devastation particularly in regions where the population is growing, climatic conditions are unfavourable, agriculture is poorly organised, and very few funds are available for machinery, fertilisers and pesticides. '''Farmland will therefore mostly be acquired by cutting down tropical forests and other natural and quasi-natural ecosystems.''' | Even though there are many ways of treating agricultural land sparingly, applying fertilisers, pesticides and irrigation water appropriately, and cultivating highly productive crops, food production and the related activities (storage, preservation, raw material processing, transportation) will, without a doubt, be one of the crucial problems of humanity in the coming decades, and a cause of environmental devastation particularly in regions where the population is growing, climatic conditions are unfavourable, agriculture is poorly organised, and very few funds are available for machinery, fertilisers and pesticides. '''Farmland will therefore mostly be acquired by cutting down tropical forests and other natural and quasi-natural ecosystems.''' | ||
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