Reconciling Agriculture and Wildlife: Policy and Research Challenges of ‘Ecoagriculture'

Conventional wisdom holds that modern farming is largely incompatible with wildlife conservation. Thus policies to protect wildlife typically rely on land use segregation, establishing protected areas from which agriculture is officially excluded. Farmers are seen as problems by those promoting this view of wildlife conservation. This chapter argues, however, that enhancing the contribution of farming systems is an essential part of any biodiversity conservation strategy, and requires new technical and policy research.