Modification of farming to minimize adverse impacts on the environment

Fiona Harvey’s article titled “Can we ditch intensive farming - and still feed the world?” discusses the issue of devastating industrial agriculture while encouraging environmentally sustainable farming. As the world population increases drastically to 9.8 billion people by 2050, intensive farming will have detrimental effects on biodiversity. As mentioned in the article, using more extensive lands for farming eventually leads to the devastation of biodiversity and the environment (forests, peatlands and wild areas) and the increase of CO2, resulting in climate change. Pesticides also play a…