Paying Farmers for “Environmental Services”
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ROME (Reuters) - Paying farmers to protect the environment — rather than just for their produce — will be an important way to ensure a rapidly increasing demand for food does not destroy the planet, a U.N. agency said on Thursday.
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said paying for “environmental services” is set to be an important way to link two of humanity’s greatest challenges: beating poverty and safeguarding the environment.
“(Farming) has the potential to degrade the Earth’s land, water, atmosphere and biological resources — or to enhance them — depending on the decisions made by the more than 2 billion people whose livelihoods depend directly on crops, livestock, fisheries or forests,” said FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf.
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