{"id":9363,"date":"2020-08-10T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"chancellor-lenore-fahrigs-findings-on-downsizing-farmers-fields-and-the-production-benefit-it-will-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2020\/chancellor-lenore-fahrigs-findings-on-downsizing-farmers-fields-and-the-production-benefit-it-will-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenore Fahrig&#8217;s Findings on Downsizing Farmers Fields and the Production Benefit it will Have"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Lenore Fahrig&#8217;s Findings on Downsizing Farmers Fields and the Production Benefit it will Have\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/lenore-fahrig\/\">Lenore Fahrig<\/a>, explains in this article the benefits of smaller farmer fields, and the added benefits towards plant life, insects, and wildlife production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A highly effective way to reduce biodiversity losses in agricultural regions is to increase the amount of natural and semi-natural habitats such as forests, hedgerows, prairie strips and other non-crop areas.&#8221;-Lenore Fahrig &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/smaller-farmers-fields-can-reduce-biodiversity-loss-and-increase-wild-plants-birds-beetles-and-bats-139015\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another article on this topic: <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalcurrent.ca\/smaller-fields-more-biodiversity-research-by-carleton-professor-shows\/\">&#8220;Smaller fields, more biodiversity, research by Carleton professor shows&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenore Fahrig, explains in this article the benefits of smaller farmer fields, and the added benefits towards plant life, insects, and wildlife production. &#8220;A highly effective way to reduce biodiversity losses in agricultural regions is to increase the amount of natural and semi-natural habitats such as forests, hedgerows, prairie strips and other non-crop areas.&#8221;-Lenore Fahrig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10000,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions\/10000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}