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Over 750 scientists have signed an opinion piece in Le Monde in which they say cultivating European areas dedicated to biodiversity, while pretending that this will prevent a food crisis in in Africa and the Middle East, would be disastrous ecologically. They say it doesn't help to increase a type of agricultural production that, as practised, exacerbates various major threats: biodiversity is collapsing, climate change is accelerating, pollution (fertilisers, pesticides, plastic) is getting worse, and nutrition and health are deteriorating. According to the UN, the world already produces about a third more food than is needed. In fact, the planet has never produced so much per person. But still the number of people going hungry has been increasing in recent years, due to problems like poverty and poor distribution – not a shortage of production. Le Monde (French text) – English summary via @GMWatch on Twitter