A maize farm
Boosting food productivity per hectare through intensive agricultural practices has been described by agricultural scientists and technologists as the most potent way of revving up food production without much disruption to the ecosystem.
This follows moves around the world to tame deforestation as a major factor responsible for global warming and climate change.
Extensive agricultural practices have been pinpointed as a major driver opening up more forests for farmland, and in the process causing deforestation and fuelling climate change. x
But scientists have said, through various experiments and researches, that food productivity is possible without unnecessary opening up of more forests. Some scientists advocate agroforestry, where economic trees are intercropped with food crops while maintaining the forest biodiversity.