Agri-environmental complementarities: Challenges and opportunities in an old world

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We think of the old world represented particularly by countries in Europe and Japan in rather loose terms as areas where land has been in continuous human use with the application of relatively constant technology over periods of several hundreds or even thousands of years. 1 This is not to say that land in other parts of the world has not been in some sort of continuous use. Rather, the point is that in the old world, the land has been used in a similar way, relatively intensively and more or less continuously over this very long period of time. In contrast in the "new world," typified by the United States and Australasia, European settlement has brought in a different technology and an approach to agricultural production that has made a significant break in the continuity ofland use. B. Green comments:It is the gradual development of farming over millennia that has permitted the largely spontaneous colonization of cultural landscapes by indigenous species recruited from nat

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