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An intensive farming system that benefits biodiversity and pollination is not economically profitable

• An international scientific team, with the participation of the Doñana Biological Station, shows that maintaining grasslands adjacent to crop fields increases the abundance and diversity of wild pollinators, currently in decline.
• This biodiversity-friendly system helps to obtain a higher crop production, but farmers may not profit economically. This raises a discussion about if the transition to biodiversity-friendly farming mandatory may provide economic yield or if it may require...